Test 12 · Energy — where it comes from and how to save it

a video said burning coal is clean and doesn't change the climate. right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: video, burning · What happens: say, burn, be, not change · To what, where: coal, climate · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 video	det
2	video	video	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 clean	csubj
5	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 burning	obj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 clean	cop
7	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 said	ccomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 change	cc
9	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 change	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 change	advmod
11	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 clean	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 climate	det
13	climate	climate	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 change	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
15	right	right	INTJ	_	3 said	discourse
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	a video			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	burn	gerund		coal		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent coal=Theme
3	is	present	burning		clean property	tree rules
4	not change	present · do-support	burning not said here	the climate		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent climate=Patient

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

Yes, coal smoke is clean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 clean	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 smoke	compound
4	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 clean	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 clean	cop
6	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	coal smoke					clean property	tree rules

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

No, it releases carbon dioxide which warms the climate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 releases	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 releases	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 releases	nsubj
4	releases	release	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	carbon	carbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dioxide	compound
6	dioxide	dioxide	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 releases	obj
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 warms	nsubj
8	warms	warm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 dioxide	acl:relcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 climate	det
10	climate	climate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 warms	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	release	present	it	carbon dioxide					vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer dioxide=Source
2	warm	present	carbon dioxide	the climate					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent climate=Patient

Option 3

Yes, coal cools the Earth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 cools	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cools	nsubj
4	cools	cool	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Earth	det
6	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 cools	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cool	present	coal	the Earth					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent earth=Patient

Option 4

No, coal releases only water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 releases	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 releases	punct
3	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 releases	nsubj
4	releases	release	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 water	advmod
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 releases	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	release	present	coal	water					vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer water=Source

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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