Test 7 · Energy — where it comes from and how to save it

Why do many countries build more solar panels and wind turbines?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, build · To what, where: many countries, solar panels

This is test 7 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	2 do	advmod
2	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 build	advcl
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 countries	amod
4	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 do	obj
5	build	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 solar	advmod
7	solar	solar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 panels	amod
8	panels	panel	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 build	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 turbines	cc
10	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 turbines	compound
11	turbines	turbine	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 panels	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 build	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		many countries					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Eventuality
2	build	present		solar panels and wind turbines					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset panel=Product

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

They make the weather warmer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 weather	det
4	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
5	warmer	warm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	They	the weather				warm property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset weather=Product

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They are renewable and do not release carbon dioxide while working

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 renewable	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 renewable	cop
3	renewable	renewable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 release	cc
5	do	do	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 release	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 release	advmod
7	release	release	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 renewable	conj
8	carbon	carbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dioxide	compound
9	dioxide	dioxide	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 release	obj
10	while	while	SCONJ	_	11 working	mark
11	working	work	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 release	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	They		renewable property	tree rules
2	not release	infinitive · do-support	They not said here	carbon dioxide		vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer dioxide=Source
3	work	gerund	They not said here			vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

They are made from oil and gas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 oil	case
5	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 gas	cc
7	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 oil	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		They		oil and gas			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from oil=Material

Option 4

They work without sunlight or wind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 work	nsubj
2	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	without	without	ADP	_	4 sunlight	case
4	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 work	obl
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 wind	cc
6	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sunlight	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	They					without sunlight or wind	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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