Test 8 · ★ · Natural resources and why we must save them

Why is a tap left running a waste of a precious resource?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tap · What happens: leave, run · To what, where: tap, waste

This is test 8 · ★ 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 left	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 left	aux:pass
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 tap	det
4	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 left	nsubj
5	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 left	xcomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 waste	det
8	waste	waste	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 running	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 resource	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 resource	det
11	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 resource	amod
12	resource	resource	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 waste	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 left	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	present · passive		a tap					tree rules
2	run	gerund	a tap not said here	a waste of a precious resource					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme waste=Trajectory

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

The water turns into gas in the sink

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 water	det
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turns	nsubj
3	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 gas	case
5	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turns	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 sink	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sink	det
8	sink	sink	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turns	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	the water			gas		in the sink	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme into gas=Source in sink=Trajectory

Option 2

Running water makes the pipes grow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 water	amod
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	nsubj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pipes	det
5	pipes	pipe	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 grow	nsubj
6	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	run	gerund		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make	present	Running water	tree rules
3	grow	present	the pipes	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Fresh drinkable water is only a tiny part of all water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 water	amod
2	drinkable	drinkable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 water	amod
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 part	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 part	cop
5	only	only	ADV	_	8 part	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 part	det
7	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 part	amod
8	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 water	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 water	det
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 part	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Fresh drinkable water	a tiny part				of all water	tree rules

Option 4

Water from taps comes straight from the ocean and never ends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 comes	nsubj
2	from	from	ADP	_	3 taps	case
3	taps	tap	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Water	nmod
4	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	straight	straight	ADV	_	8 ocean	advmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 ocean	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ocean	det
8	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 comes	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 ends	cc
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 ends	advmod
11	ends	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 comes	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	Water from taps			the ocean			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from ocean=Initial_Location
2	not end	present	Water from taps not said here						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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