Test 10 · Energy — where it comes from and how to save it

whats a solar panel actually do

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: whats · What happens: do

This is test 10 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	whats	what	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 do	nsubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 panel	det
3	solar	solar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 panel	amod
4	panel	panel	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 whats	appos
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 do	advmod
6	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	whats					actually property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It turns wind into heat

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 turns	nsubj
2	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turns	obj
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 heat	case
5	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turns	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	It	wind		heat			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent wind=Theme into heat=Trajectory

Option 2

It makes the sun brighter

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	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	brighter	bright	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	xcomp

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It changes sunlight into electricity

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 changes	nsubj
2	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 changes	obj
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 electricity	case
5	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 changes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	present	It	sunlight				into electricity result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent sunlight=Patient into electricity=Result

Option 4

It stores coal for later, like a battery

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 stores	nsubj
2	stores	store	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stores	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 later	case
5	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 stores	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 battery	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 battery	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 battery	det
9	battery	battery	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stores	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	store	present	It	coal				like a battery	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coal=Theme

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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