Test 8 · ★ · Colours of fire: fireworks
Oli: "the green in the northern lights is fire in the sky". What's really glowing?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Oli · What happens: be, glow · To what, where: fire, sky
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 26 «Colours of fire: fireworks» of the chemistry 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.
The question
Sentence 1: Oli: "the green in the northern lights is fire in the sky".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oli | Oli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 fire | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 green | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 green | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 green | det |
| 5 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Oli | appos |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 lights | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lights | det |
| 8 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 lights | amod |
| 9 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 green | obl |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 fire | cop |
| 11 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 sky | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sky | det |
| 14 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fire | nmod |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 fire | punct |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 fire | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Oli | fire | the sky | tree rules |
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.
Sentence 2: What's really glowing?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 glowing | obj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 glowing | aux |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 4 glowing | advmod |
| 4 | glowing | glow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 glowing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glow | present · progressive | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
Oxygen high up, hit by particles from the Sun
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oxygen | oxygen | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | high | high | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 up | advmod |
| 3 | up | up | ADV | _ | 1 Oxygen | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hit | punct |
| 5 | hit | hit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Oxygen | acl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 particles | case |
| 7 | particles | particle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hit | obl |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 Sun | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Sun | det |
| 10 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 hit | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit | participle | Oxygen not said here | the Sun | by particles | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Gas from volcanoes on fire in the sky
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 3 volcanoes | case |
| 3 | volcanoes | volcano | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Gas | nmod |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 fire | case |
| 5 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 volcanoes | nmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 sky | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sky | det |
| 8 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fire | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Forests burning far away in the north
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Forests | acl |
| 3 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 away | advmod |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 burning | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 north | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 north | det |
| 7 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 burning | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | gerund | Forests not said here | the north | away property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in north=Location |
Option 4
Green moonlight bouncing off the ice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 moonlight | amod |
| 2 | moonlight | moonlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | bouncing | bounce | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 moonlight | acl |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 ice | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ice | det |
| 6 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bouncing | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bounce off | gerund | Green moonlight not said here | the ice | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ice=Agent |
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