Test 10 · ★★ · The Moon, the planets and the stars

A cartoon shows a black hole sucking in every star in the galaxy, like a drain. What's wrong?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cartoon, black hole · What happens: show, suck, be · To what, where: black hole, star

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 14 «The Moon, the planets and the stars» 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

Sentence 1: A cartoon shows a black hole sucking in every star in the galaxy, like a drain.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cartoon	det
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shows	nsubj
3	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hole	det
5	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hole	amod
6	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shows	obj
7	sucking	suck	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 hole	acl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 star	case
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 star	det
10	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sucking	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 galaxy	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 galaxy	det
13	galaxy	galaxy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sucking	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 drain	punct
15	like	like	ADP	_	17 drain	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 drain	det
17	drain	drain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sucking	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	a cartoon	a black hole					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent hole=Recipient
2	suck	gerund	a black hole not said here			every star		in the galaxy; like a drain	vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 wrong	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wrong	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Black holes don't have any gravity

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 holes	amod
2	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 have	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 have	advmod
5	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 gravity	det
7	gravity	gravity	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not have	present · do-support	Black holes	any gravity					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gravity=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

From far away it pulls like any object of the same mass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	From	from	ADP	_	2 far	case
2	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 pulls	advmod
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 far	advmod
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pulls	nsubj
5	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 object	case
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 object	det
8	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pulls	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 mass	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mass	det
11	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 mass	amod
12	mass	mass	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 object	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	present	it					like any object of the same mass; far property	vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Nothing, that's exactly what they do to every star near or far

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 what	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 what	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 what	cop
5	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	6 what	advmod
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 do	nsubj
8	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 what	acl:relcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 star	case
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 star	det
11	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 do	obl
12	near	near	ADV	_	8 do	advmod
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 far	cc
14	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 near	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Nothing					exactly property	tree rules
2	do	present	they					to every star; near property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Black holes push things away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 holes	amod
2	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 push	nsubj
3	push	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 push	obj
5	away	away	ADV	_	3 push	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push away	present	Black holes	things				away property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme

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