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title: What would happen if a country built power stations but no pylons or… — Power stations and the grid · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if a country built power stations but no pylons or wires? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 32 «Power stations and the grid» of the technology 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 3 · ★ · Power stations and the grid

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What would happen if a country built power stations but no pylons or wires?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** happen, build · **To what, where:** country

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 32 «Power stations and the grid» of the technology 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/technology/32-power-stations-and-the-grid/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:32-power-stations-and-the-grid:t3:1
# text = What would happen if a country built power stations but no pylons or wires?
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	_	9	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
7	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	stations	station	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	advcl	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
12	pylons	pylon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	wires	wire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	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 | **build** | participle |  | a country *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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Electricity would fly to homes through the air

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:32-power-stations-and-the-grid:t3:o1:1
# text = Electricity would fly to homes through the air
1	Electricity	electricity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	through	through	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | would | Electricity |  |  | the air |  | to homes | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=Location |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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The electricity could not reach homes far away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:32-power-stations-and-the-grid:t3:o2:1
# text = The electricity could not reach homes far away
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	electricity	electricity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
8	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **reach** | could | the electricity | homes |  |  |  | away *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent home=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Homes would get more electricity than before

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:32-power-stations-and-the-grid:t3:o3:1
# text = Homes would get more electricity than before
1	Homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
5	electricity	electricity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	before	before	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | would | Homes | more electricity |  |  |  | before *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer electricity=Stimulus |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nothing, every home makes its own

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:32-power-stations-and-the-grid:t3:o4:1
# text = Nothing, every home makes its own
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Nothing | home's own |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material own=Product |

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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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