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Test 1 · Energy — where it comes from and how to save it

A town builds a dam on a river to make electricity. What kind of energy source is it using?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: town, kind · What happens: build, make, use · To what, where: dam, river, electricity, kind

This is test 1 of lesson 56 «Energy — where it comes from and how to save it» 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 builds a dam on a river to make electricity.

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 builds	nsubj
3	builds	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 dam	det
5	dam	dam	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 builds	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 river	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 river	det
8	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 builds	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 make	mark
10	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 builds	advcl
11	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 make	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 builds	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	present	a town	a dam		a river			vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent dam=Theme on river=Source
2	make	to-infinitive	a town not said here	electricity					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset electricity=Product

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: What kind of energy source is it using?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 kind	det
2	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 using	obj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 source	case
4	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 source	compound
5	source	source	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kind	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 using	aux
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 using	nsubj
8	using	use	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 using	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present · progressive	kind	what kind of energy source					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Patient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Energy made from nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Energy	acl
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 nothing	case
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	participle		Energy not said here		nothing			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset from nothing=Material

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A renewable one, flowing water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 one	det
2	renewable	renewable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 one	amod
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 flowing	punct
5	flowing	flow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 water	amod
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 one	conj

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

Option 3

A fossil fuel from the riverbed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 fuel	det
2	fossil	fossil	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fuel	compound
3	fuel	fuel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 riverbed	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 riverbed	det
6	riverbed	riverbed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fuel	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

A non-renewable one, like coal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 one	det
2	non-renewable	non-renewable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 one	amod
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 coal	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 coal	case
6	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 one	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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