Exam question 3 · Olympiad: transport, building and energy ★★★
Identify, with reference to the established facts, the one source of electricity which requires no spinning generator.
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, one source · What happens: identify, establish, require, spin · To what, where: spinning generator
This is exam question 3 of lesson 43 «Olympiad: transport, building and energy ★★★» of the technology course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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 | Identify | identify | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 reference | punct |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 reference | case |
| 4 | reference | reference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 facts | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 facts | det |
| 7 | established | establish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 facts | amod |
| 8 | facts | fact | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Identify | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 source | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 source | det |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 source | nummod |
| 12 | source | source | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 facts | appos |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 electricity | case |
| 14 | electricity | electricity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 source | nmod |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 requires | nsubj |
| 16 | requires | require | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 source | parataxis |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 generator | det |
| 18 | spinning | spin | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 generator | amod |
| 19 | generator | generator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 requires | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Identify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | imperative | you not said here | with reference; to the established facts | vn empathize-88.2 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer with reference=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | establish | participle | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 3 | require | present | the one source of electricity | no spinning generator | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme generator=Precondition | ||||
| 4 | spin | gerund | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
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 hydroelectric dam
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dam | det |
| 2 | hydroelectric | hydroelectric | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dam | amod |
| 3 | dam | dam | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The coal-fired power station
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 station | det |
| 2 | coal | coal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fired | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 coal | punct |
| 4 | fired | fire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 station | amod |
| 5 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 station | compound |
| 6 | station | station | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fire | participle | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The solar panel
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 panel | det |
| 2 | solar | solar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 panel | amod |
| 3 | panel | panel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The wind turbine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 turbine | det |
| 2 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turbine | compound |
| 3 | turbine | turbine | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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