Test 2 · ★★ · Earth from space

Sienna's brother insists summer is from being closer to the Sun. Which question beats him best?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brother, summer, question · What happens: insist, be, beat · To what, where: brother

This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 13 «Earth from space» of the myths 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	Sienna	Sienna	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 brother	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Sienna	case
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 insists	nsubj
4	insists	insist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 closer	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 closer	cop
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 closer	case
8	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 closer	cop
9	closer	close	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 insists	advcl
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 Sun.	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Sun.	det
12	Sun.	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 closer	obl
13	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	14 question	det
14	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 beats	nsubj
15	beats	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 insists	parataxis
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 beats	obj
17	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	15 beats	advmod
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 insists	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	insist speech: other	present	Sienna's brother				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	summer		sunday	close property	tree rules
3	beat	present	which question	brother		well property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme

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

Why does the Sun look so yellow in all of our drawings?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 look	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 look	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Sun	det
4	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 look	nsubj
5	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 yellow	advmod
7	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 look	xcomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 yellow	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 drawings	case
11	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 drawings	nmod:poss
12	drawings	drawing	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 all	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 look	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present · do-support	the Sun					yellow property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	draw		our						nom drawing «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

How many planets are there?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 many	advmod
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 planets	amod
3	planets	planet	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 there	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 there	cop
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 there	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	many planets					there property	tree rules

Option 3

Why do we have weekends?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 have	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	weekends	weekend	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present · do-support	we				weekend		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Why is it summer in Australia when it's winter here?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 summer	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 summer	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 summer	nsubj
4	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 winter	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Australia	case
6	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 summer	nmod
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 winter	advmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 winter	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 winter	cop
10	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 winter	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 winter	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	summer		Australia			tree rules
2	is a	present	summer	winter		here			tree rules

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