Test 5 · Energy — where it comes from and how to save it

Which is true about a wind turbine?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: be

This is test 5 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	7 turbine	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 turbine	det
6	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 turbine	compound
7	turbine	turbine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 true	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about a wind turbine; true property	tree rules

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

It burns fuel to spin

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 burns	nsubj
2	burns	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fuel	fuel	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 burns	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 spin	mark
5	spin	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 burns	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	present	It	fuel					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fuel=Theme
2	spin	to-infinitive							vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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

It turns the movement of wind 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 turns	nsubj
2	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 movement	det
4	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turns	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 wind	case
6	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 movement	nmod
7	into	into	ADP	_	8 electricity	case
8	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turns	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	It	the movement of wind		electricity			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent movement=Theme into electricity=Trajectory
2	move			wind					nom movement «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

It works only when there is no wind blowing at all

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 works	nsubj
2	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	8 wind	advmod
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 is	advmod
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 is	expl
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 wind	cop
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 wind	det
8	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 works	obl
9	blowing	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 wind	acl
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 blowing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	work	present	It			vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present		no wind		tree rules
3	blow	gerund	no wind not said here		all	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

Option 4

It makes the wind blow harder

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	5 blow	det
4	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 blow	compound
5	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
6	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	xcomp

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

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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