Test 10 · ★★ · Wind, sun and other clean energy

«why not just switch off every gas station tomorrow and use wind» What is the main problem?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: not switch off, use, be · To what, where: gas station, wind, main problem · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 33 «Wind, sun and other clean energy» of the technology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 switch	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 switch	advmod
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 switch	advmod
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 switch	advmod
5	switch	switch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 switch	compound:prt
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 station	det
8	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 station	compound
9	station	station	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 switch	obj
10	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 switch	obl:unmarked
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 use	cc
12	use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 switch	conj
13	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 use	obj
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 switch	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 problem	obj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 problem	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 problem	det
18	main	main	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 problem	amod
19	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 switch	parataxis
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 switch	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	not switch off in a quote	imperative	you not said here	every gas station	tomorrow	tree rules
2	use in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	wind		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wind=Patient
3	is a	present		the main problem		tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

On calm nights there is little wind or sun, so we still need other sources and storage

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	On	on	ADP	_	3 nights	case
2	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 nights	amod
3	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 is	obl
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 is	expl
5	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wind	amod
7	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 is	nsubj
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 sun	cc
9	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wind	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 need	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	14 need	advmod
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 need	nsubj
13	still	still	ADV	_	14 need	advmod
14	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 is	conj
15	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 sources	amod
16	sources	source	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 need	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 storage	cc
18	storage	storage	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sources	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	does	present	little wind or sun			there	night		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	need	present	we	other sources and storage			still		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot source=Theme

Option 2

The wind would run out after a week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wind	det
2	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 run	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 run	aux
4	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 run	compound:prt
6	after	after	ADP	_	8 week	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 week	det
8	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 run	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run out	would	the wind				week		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Wind turbines are too quiet to work at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turbines	compound
2	turbines	turbine	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 quiet	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 quiet	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 quiet	advmod
5	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 work	mark
7	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 quiet	advcl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 night	case
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 work	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Wind turbines					quiet property	tree rules
2	work	to-infinitive	Wind turbines not said here				night		vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Wind makes more pollution than gas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 pollution	amod
4	pollution	pollution	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 gas	case
6	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Wind	more pollution				than gas	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pollution=Product

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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