Test 3 · Energy — where it comes from and how to save it

Why will the world eventually run short of oil but not of sunshine?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: world · What happens: run

This is test 3 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 run	advmod
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 run	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 world	det
4	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 run	nsubj
5	eventually	eventually	ADV	_	4 world	advmod
6	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 run	xcomp
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 oil	case
9	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 short	obl
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 sunshine	cc
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 sunshine	advmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 sunshine	case
13	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 oil	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 run	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	future	the world					short property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 right answer

Oil forms far too slowly, but the Sun keeps shining

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 forms	nsubj
2	forms	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 slowly	advmod
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 slowly	advmod
5	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	2 forms	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 keeps	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 keeps	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Sun	det
9	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 keeps	nsubj
10	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 forms	parataxis
11	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 keeps	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	form	present	Oil	slowly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep	present	the Sun		tree rules
3	shine	gerund	the Sun not said here		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

The Sun is made of oil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Sun	det
2	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux:pass
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 oil	case
6	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		the Sun				of oil	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 3

Sunshine is stored underground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sunshine	Sunshine	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 stored	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stored	aux:pass
3	stored	store	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	underground	underground	ADV	_	3 stored	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	store	present · passive		Sunshine				underground property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4

Oil is all used up already

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 used	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 used	aux:pass
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 used	advmod
4	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 used	compound:prt
6	already	already	ADV	_	4 used	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use up	present · passive		Oil				all property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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