Test 1 · ★ · Natural resources and why we must save them
A town gets all its electricity from a wind farm and solar panels. Why can it go on doing so for ever?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: town · What happens: get, electrify, go, do · To what, where: electricity, wind farm
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 47 «Natural resources and why we must save them» of the world 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
Sentence 1: A town gets all its electricity from a wind farm and solar panels.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 town | det |
| 2 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gets | nsubj |
| 3 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 electricity | det:predet |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 electricity | nmod:poss |
| 6 | electricity | electricity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gets | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 farm | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 farm | det |
| 9 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 farm | compound |
| 10 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gets | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 panels | cc |
| 12 | solar | solar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 panels | amod |
| 13 | panels | panel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 farm | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gets | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | a town | town's electricity | a wind farm and solar panels | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent electricity=Theme from farm=Source | |||
| 2 | electrify | town | nom electricity «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |
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.
Sentence 2: Why can it go on doing so for ever?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 go | advmod |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 6 doing | mark |
| 6 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 go | advcl |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 doing | advmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 ever | case |
| 9 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 doing | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | can | town | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | do | gerund | town not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Wind turbines turn even without wind
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 | 3 turn | nsubj |
| 3 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | even | even | ADV | _ | 3 turn | advmod |
| 5 | without | without | ADP | _ | 6 wind | case |
| 6 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turn | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | present | Wind turbines | without wind | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
The panels make new sunlight every day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 panels | det |
| 2 | panels | panel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 make | nsubj |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sunlight | amod |
| 5 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 make | obj |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 day | det |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 make | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | the panels | new sunlight | day | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sunlight=Product |
Option 3
The town has a huge store of coal hidden deep underground
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 town | det |
| 2 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 store | det |
| 5 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 store | amod |
| 6 | store | store | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 coal | case |
| 8 | coal | coal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 store | nmod |
| 9 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 coal | acl |
| 10 | deep | deep | ADV | _ | 11 underground | advmod |
| 11 | underground | underground | ADV | _ | 9 hidden | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the town | a huge store of coal | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent store=Patient | ||||
| 2 | hide | participle | coal not said here | underground property | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Wind and sunlight are renewable and are not used up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 renewable | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 sunlight | cc |
| 3 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wind | conj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 renewable | cop |
| 5 | renewable | renewable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 used | cc |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 used | aux:pass |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 used | advmod |
| 9 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 renewable | conj |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 used | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Wind and sunlight | renewable property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not use up | present · passive | Wind and sunlight not said here | vn eat-39.1 «NP V» |
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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