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Test 5 · ★★ · The Moon, the planets and the stars

An astronaut on the Space Station looks at stars. What would she notice?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: astronaut · What happens: look, notice

This is test 5 · ★★ 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: An astronaut on the Space Station looks at stars.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 astronaut	det
2	astronaut	astronaut	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 looks	nsubj
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 Station	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Station	det
5	Space	Space	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Station	compound
6	Station	Station	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 astronaut	nmod
7	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 stars	case
9	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 looks	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 looks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	a astronaut on the Space Station					at stars	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at star=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.

Sentence 2: What would she notice?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 notice	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 notice	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 notice	nsubj
4	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 notice	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	notice	would	astronaut						vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

They look green

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 look	nsubj
2	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 look	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	They					green property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

They twinkle even more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 twinkle	nsubj
2	twinkle	twinkle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	even	even	ADV	_	4 more	advmod
4	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 twinkle	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	twinkle	present	They						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They don't twinkle, because there's no air to bend the light

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 twinkle	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 twinkle	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 twinkle	advmod
4	twinkle	twinkle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 's	punct
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 's	mark
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 's	expl
8	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 twinkle	parataxis
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 air	det
10	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 's	nsubj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 bend	mark
12	bend	bend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 air	acl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 light	det
14	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bend	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not twinkle	present · do-support	They						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	be	present	no air			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	bend	to-infinitive	no air not said here	the light					vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent light=Material

Option 4

They blink on and off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 blink	nsubj
2	blink	blink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADV	_	2 blink	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 off	cc
5	off	off	ADV	_	3 on	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blink	present	They						vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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