Test 6 · ★★★ · Olympiad: transport, building and energy ★★★

★★★ «solar panels are just tiny wind turbines with a spinny bit inside» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, tiny wind turbines · What happens: be · To what, where: tiny wind turbines · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★★★ of lesson 43 «Olympiad: transport, building and 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	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 turbines	nsubj
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	1 ★	punct
5	solar	solar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 panels	amod
6	panels	panel	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 turbines	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 turbines	cop
8	just	just	ADV	_	11 turbines	advmod
9	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 turbines	amod
10	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 turbines	compound
11	turbines	turbine	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
12	with	with	ADP	_	15 bit	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 bit	det
14	spinny	spinny	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bit	compound
15	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 right	obl
16	inside	inside	ADV	_	15 bit	advmod
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 bit	punct
18	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 right	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 right	cop
20	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 turbines	parataxis
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 turbines	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	★	tiny wind turbines					tree rules
2	is	present	tiny wind turbines					with a spinny bit; right property	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

No, they burn sunlight like a small fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 burn	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 burn	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 burn	nsubj
4	burn	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 burn	obj
6	like	like	ADP	_	9 fire	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 fire	det
8	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fire	amod
9	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 burn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	present	they	sunlight				like a small fire	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sunlight=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, light frees tiny electrons in silicon cells and nothing spins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 frees	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 frees	punct
3	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 frees	nsubj
4	frees	free	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 electrons	amod
6	electrons	electron	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 frees	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 cells	case
8	silicon	silicon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cells	compound
9	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 electrons	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 spins	cc
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 spins	nsubj
12	spins	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 frees	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	free	present	light	tiny electrons		silicon cells			vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer electron=Source
2	spin	present	nothing						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Yes, a little fan inside spins when sunlight warms it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 spins	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fan	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fan	amod
5	fan	fan	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spins	nsubj
6	inside	inside	ADP	_	5 fan	nmod
7	spins	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 warms	advmod
9	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 warms	nsubj
10	warms	warm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 spins	advcl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 warms	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spin	present	a little fan						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	warm	present	sunlight	fan					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, they need wind as well as sunlight to work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 need	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 need	nsubj
4	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 need	obj
6	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	9 sunlight	cc
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 as	fixed
8	as	as	ADP	_	6 as	fixed
9	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 need	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 work	mark
11	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 need	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	they	wind					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot wind=Theme
2	work	to-infinitive	they not said here						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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