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title: What would happen if everyone kept using oil much faster than it for… — Fuels, the Sun and saving energy · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if everyone kept using oil much faster than it forms? Test 4 · ★★ 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 wrong.
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# Test 4 · ★★ · Fuels, the Sun and saving energy

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What would happen if everyone kept using oil much faster than it forms?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** everyone, oil · **What happens:** happen, keep, use, form · **To what, where:** oil

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This is test 4 · ★★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:32-fuels-the-sun-and-saving-energy:t4:1
# text = What would happen if everyone kept using oil much faster than it forms?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	6	nsubj	_	_
6	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	using	use	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	xcomp	_	_
8	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	much	much	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
11	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	forms	form	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | everyone |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **use** | gerund | everyone *not said here* | oil |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oil=Patient |
| 4 | **form** | present | oil |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 {#o1}

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It would turn into coal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:32-fuels-the-sun-and-saving-energy:t4:o1:1
# text = It would turn into coal
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	coal	coal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | would | It |  |  | coal |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into coal=Trajectory |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nothing, oil never runs out

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:32-fuels-the-sun-and-saving-energy:t4:o2:1
# text = Nothing, oil never runs out
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **run out** | present | Nothing |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It would grow back each spring

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:32-fuels-the-sun-and-saving-energy:t4:o3:1
# text = It would grow back each spring
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow back** | would | It |  |  |  | spring |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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It would eventually run out

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:32-fuels-the-sun-and-saving-energy:t4:o4:1
# text = It would eventually run out
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	eventually	eventually	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run out** | would | It |  |  |  |  | eventually *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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