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title: «solar panels are useless in England, it's always cloudy innit» What… — Wind, sun and other clean energy · tree and pragmatics
description: «solar panels are useless in England, it's always cloudy innit» What is the best correction? Test 1 · ★★ of lesson 33 «Wind, sun and other clean energy» 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 ri
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# Test 1 · ★★ · Wind, sun and other clean energy

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«solar panels are useless in England, it's always cloudy innit» What is the best correction?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** solar panels, it, best correction · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** England, cloudy innit · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 33 «Wind, sun and other clean energy» 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/33-wind-sun-and-other-clean-energy/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:33-wind-sun-and-other-clean-energy:t1:1
# text = «solar panels are useless in England, it's always cloudy innit» What is the best correction?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	solar	solar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	panels	panel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	useless	useless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	12	advmod	_	_
12	cloudy	cloudy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
15	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	parataxis	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	amod	_	_
19	correction	correction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | solar panels |  |  | England |  | useless *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | it | cloudy innit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the best correction |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 {#o1}

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You are right, they only work in full bright sunshine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:33-wind-sun-and-other-clean-energy:t1:o1:1
# text = You are right, they only work in full bright sunshine
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	work	work	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | You |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **work** | present | they |  |  |  |  | in full bright sunshine | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in sunshine=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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They still work on cloudy days, just less

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:33-wind-sun-and-other-clean-energy:t1:o2:1
# text = They still work on cloudy days, just less
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	still	still	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	work	work	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	cloudy	cloudy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	just	just	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | present | They |  |  |  | still; day | less *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
They work only if the clouds are white

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:33-wind-sun-and-other-clean-energy:t1:o3:1
# text = They work only if the clouds are white
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	work	work	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | present | They |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the clouds |  |  |  |  | white *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
They work only in summer at noon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:33-wind-sun-and-other-clean-energy:t1:o4:1
# text = They work only in summer at noon
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	work	work	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	noon	noon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | present | They |  |  |  | noon; summer |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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