Test 4 · Space: from Sputnik to the Moon

Why is Apollo 13 called a successful failure?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Apollo · What happens: be, call · To what, where: Apollo, successful failure · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 of lesson 35 «Space: from Sputnik to the Moon» of the history 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 called	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 Apollo	cop
3	Apollo	Apollo	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 called	nsubj
4	13	13	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 Apollo	flat
5	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 failure	det
7	successful	successful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 failure	amod
8	failure	failure	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 called	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 called	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		Apollo					tree rules
2	call	past	Apollo	a successful failure					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent failure=Recipient

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Nobody at all was on board the ship

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 ship	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nobody	nmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 ship	cop
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 ship	case
6	board	board	ADP	_	8 ship	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ship	det
8	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Nobody			the ship			tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It never landed, but calm teamwork brought the crew home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 landed	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 landed	advmod
3	landed	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 brought	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 brought	cc
6	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 teamwork	amod
7	teamwork	teamwork	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 brought	nsubj
8	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 landed	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 crew	det
10	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 brought	obj
11	home	home	ADV	_	8 brought	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not land	past	It						vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bring	past	calm teamwork	the crew				home property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent crew=Theme

Option 3

It was a success in every way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 success	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 success	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 success	det
4	success	success	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 way	case
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 way	det
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 success	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a success		every way			tree rules

Option 4

It landed on the Moon twice in one trip and won a big prize

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 landed	nsubj
2	landed	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 Moon	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Moon	det
5	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 landed	obl
6	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 landed	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 trip	case
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 trip	nummod
9	trip	trip	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 landed	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 won	cc
11	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 landed	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 prize	det
13	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 prize	amod
14	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 won	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	land	past	It			the Moon		in one trip; twice property	vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on moon=Destination
2	win	past		a big prize					vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=Eventuality

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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