Test 1 · ★★ · The night sky and outdoor myths
A girl in Tasmania sees green and pink light rippling in the southern sky at night. What is she seeing?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl · What happens: see · To what, where: green light rippling, southern sky
This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 240 «The night sky and outdoor myths» of the everyday 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: A girl in Tasmania sees green and pink light rippling in the southern sky at night.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sees | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Tasmania | case |
| 4 | Tasmania | Tasmania | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 rippling | amod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 pink | cc |
| 8 | pink | pink | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 green | conj |
| 9 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rippling | compound |
| 10 | rippling | rippling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sees | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 sky | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sky | det |
| 13 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sky | amod |
| 14 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rippling | nmod |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 night | case |
| 16 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sees | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sees | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | a girl in Tasmania | green light rippling | the southern sky | night | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rippling=Stimulus |
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 is she seeing?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 seeing | obj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 seeing | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 seeing | nsubj |
| 4 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 seeing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present · progressive | girl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Lights from a ship far out at sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 out | nsubj |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 ship | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 ship | det |
| 4 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Lights | nmod |
| 5 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 out | advmod |
| 6 | out | out | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 sea | case |
| 8 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 out | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A shooting star
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 star | det |
| 2 | shooting | shooting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 star | compound |
| 3 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The southern lights
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lights | det |
| 2 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lights | amod |
| 3 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A rainbow at night
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 rainbow | det |
| 2 | rainbow | rainbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 night | case |
| 4 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rainbow | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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