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description: Which loses more energy as wasted heat: a petrol car engine or an electric car's motor? Test 11 · ★★ of lesson 32 «Fuels, the Sun and saving energy» of the physics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 11 · ★★ · Fuels, the Sun and saving energy

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Which loses more energy as wasted heat: a petrol car engine or an electric car's motor?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** lose, waste · **To what, where:** more energy

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This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 32 «Fuels, the Sun and saving energy» of the physics 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/physics/32-fuels-the-sun-and-saving-energy/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:32-fuels-the-sun-and-saving-energy:t11:1
# text = Which loses more energy as wasted heat: a petrol car engine or an electric car's motor?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	loses	lose	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	wasted	waste	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	petrol	petrol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	engine	engine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	electric	electric	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	motor	motor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | present |  | more energy |  |  |  | as wasted heat | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Eventuality |
| 2 | **waste** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The petrol engine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:32-fuels-the-sun-and-saving-energy:t11:o1:1
# text = The petrol engine
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	petrol	petrol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	engine	engine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Neither loses any energy as heat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:32-fuels-the-sun-and-saving-energy:t11:o2:1
# text = Neither loses any energy as heat
1	Neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	nsubj	_	_
2	loses	lose	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | present | Neither | any energy |  |  |  | as heat | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Eventuality |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The electric motor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:32-fuels-the-sun-and-saving-energy:t11:o3:1
# text = The electric motor
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	electric	electric	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	motor	motor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Both lose exactly the same

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:32-fuels-the-sun-and-saving-energy:t11:o4:1
# text = Both lose exactly the same
1	Both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lose	lose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | present | Both | the same |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Eventuality |

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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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