Test 6 · ★ · Natural resources and why we must save them

Why does burning less coal and oil help the whole planet, not only one city?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: burn, help · To what, where: less coal, whole planet

This is test 6 · ★ 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	3 burning	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 burning	aux
3	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 help	nsubj
4	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 coal	amod
5	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 burning	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 oil	cc
7	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 coal	conj
8	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 planet	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 planet	amod
11	planet	planet	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 help	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 city	punct
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 city	advmod
14	only	only	ADV	_	16 city	advmod
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 city	nummod
16	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 help	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 help	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	present · do-support		less coal and oil					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent coal=Theme
2	help	present		the whole planet				one city obl	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent planet=Beneficiary

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

It makes the oceans less salty

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 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 oceans	det
4	oceans	ocean	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 makes	obj
5	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 salty	advmod
6	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the oceans				salty property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material ocean=Product

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It adds less carbon dioxide, which warms the whole climate

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 adds	nsubj
2	adds	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 dioxide	advmod
4	carbon	carbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dioxide	compound
5	dioxide	dioxide	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 adds	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 warms	punct
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 warms	nsubj
8	warms	warm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dioxide	acl:relcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 climate	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 climate	amod
11	climate	climate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 warms	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	present	It	carbon dioxide					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dioxide=Patient
2	warm	present	carbon dioxide	the whole climate					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent climate=Patient

Option 3

It makes the plates of the Earth move slower

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 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 plates	det
4	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 makes	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 Earth	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Earth	det
7	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 plates	nmod
8	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 makes	parataxis
9	slower	slow	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the plates of the Earth				slow property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material plate=Product
2	move	present							vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It makes the Sun shine more brightly

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 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Sun	det
4	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 shine	nsubj
5	shine	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 makes	xcomp
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	advmod
7	brightly	brightly	ADV	_	2 makes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It					brightly property	tree rules
2	shine	present	the Sun						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location

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