Test 10 · ★ · Natural resources and why we must save them

why cant we just make more oil when it runs out

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cant · What happens: make, run out · To what, where: more oil

This is test 10 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 make	advmod
2	cant	cant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	nsubj
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 make	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 make	advmod
5	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 runs	advcl
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 oil	amod
7	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	obj
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 runs	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 runs	nsubj
10	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 runs	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	cant	more oil					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset oil=Product
2	run out	present	cant						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP 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 · ← Mova's choice

Oil is made in factories very slowly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 factories	case
5	factories	factory	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 made	obl
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 slowly	advmod
7	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	3 made	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		Oil		factories		slowly property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 2

Oil only forms in winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 forms	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 forms	advmod
3	forms	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 winter	case
5	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 forms	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	form	present	Oil				winter		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It can be grown on farms

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 grown	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grown	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 grown	aux:pass
4	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 farms	case
6	farms	farm	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grown	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	can · passive		It		farms			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It took millions of years to form from ancient life

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 took	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 years	case
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 millions	nmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 form	mark
7	form	form	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 took	advcl
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 life	case
9	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 life	amod
10	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 form	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	It	millions of years					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent million=Theme
2	form	to-infinitive				ancient life			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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