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title: Why do sun and wind count as clean energy and coal does not? — Coal, oil and gas · tree and pragmatics
description: Why do sun and wind count as clean energy and coal does not? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 59 «Coal, oil and gas» of the geography course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 8 · ★ · Coal, oil and gas

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Why do sun and wind count as clean energy and coal does not?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** sun · **What happens:** count, not do

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 59 «Coal, oil and gas» of the geography 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/geography/59-coal-oil-and-gas/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:59-coal-oil-and-gas:t8:1
# text = Why do sun and wind count as clean energy and coal does not?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	count	count	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	coal	coal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | present | sun and wind |  |  |  |  | as clean energy and coal | vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as energy=Attribute |
| 2 | **not** **do** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Sun and wind do not burn fuel or release carbon dioxide

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:59-coal-oil-and-gas:t8:o1:1
# text = Sun and wind do not burn fuel or release carbon dioxide
1	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	fuel	fuel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	release	release	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	carbon	carbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	dioxide	dioxide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **burn** | present · do-support | Sun and wind | fuel or release carbon dioxide |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fuel=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Coal is cleaner but more expensive

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:59-coal-oil-and-gas:t8:o2:1
# text = Coal is cleaner but more expensive
1	Coal	coal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	cleaner	clean	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
6	expensive	expensive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Coal |  |  |  |  | clean *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Coal *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Sun and wind are made from coal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:59-coal-oil-and-gas:t8:o3:1
# text = Sun and wind are made from coal
1	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	coal	coal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Sun and wind are fossil fuels too

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:59-coal-oil-and-gas:t8:o4:1
# text = Sun and wind are fossil fuels too
1	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	fossil	fossil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	fuels	fuel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	too	too	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Sun and wind | fossil fuels |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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**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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