Test 6 · Energy — where it comes from and how to save it

When coal is burned in a power station, what happens to its energy?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: power station · What happens: burn, happen · To what, where: coal, power station

This is test 6 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 burned	advmod
2	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 burned	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 burned	aux:pass
4	burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 station	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 station	det
7	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 station	compound
8	station	station	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 burned	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 happens	punct
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 happens	nsubj
11	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 station	acl:relcl
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 energy	case
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 energy	nmod:poss
14	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 happens	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 burned	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	present · passive		coal		a power station			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
2	happen	present	a power station					to coal's energy	vn occur-48.3-1 «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

It is made bigger by the fire in the boiler

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	3 made	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 made	xcomp
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 fire	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fire	det
7	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 boiler	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 boiler	det
10	boiler	boiler	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive	the fire	It		the boiler		big property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It changes into heat and then 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	into	into	ADP	_	4 heat	case
4	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 changes	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 electricity	cc
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 electricity	advmod
7	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heat	conj

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

Option 3

It turns back into living plants in the soil

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	back	back	ADV	_	2 turns	advmod
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 plants	case
5	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 plants	compound
6	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 turns	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 soil	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 soil	det
9	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turns	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn back	present	It			living plants		in the soil	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It disappears completely into the air for ever

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 disappears	nsubj
2	disappears	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	completely	completely	ADV	_	2 disappears	advmod
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 air	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 air	det
6	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 disappears	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 ever	case
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	2 disappears	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	disappear	present	It			the air		completely property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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