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Test 6 · ★★ · The Moon, the planets and the stars

Lucy's sister wants to wish on a falling star. What's the nicest true thing to say?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sister, nicest true thing · What happens: want, wish, fall, be, say · To what, where: falling star · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★★ 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: Lucy's sister wants to wish on a falling star.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lucy	Lucy	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sister	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Lucy	case
3	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wants	nsubj
4	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 wish	mark
6	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wants	xcomp
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 star	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 star	det
9	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 star	amod
10	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wish	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wants	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	Lucy's sister						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	wish not said to happen	to-infinitive	Lucy's sister not said here			a falling star			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	fall	gerund							vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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's the nicest true thing to say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 thing	det
4	nicest	nice	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 thing	amod
5	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thing	amod
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 say	mark
8	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 thing	acl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the nicest true thing						tree rules
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	the nicest true thing not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

Wishes only work on planets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wishes	wish	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 work	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 work	advmod
3	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 planets	case
5	planets	planet	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 work	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	Wishes					on planets	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on planet=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It's a space pebble burning up, but make a wish anyway!

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	5 pebble	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 pebble	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pebble	det
4	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pebble	compound
5	pebble	pebble	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 pebble	acl
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 burning	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 make	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 make	cc
10	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 pebble	parataxis
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 wish	det
12	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 make	obj
13	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	10 make	advmod
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 pebble	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a space pebble					tree rules
2	burn up	gerund	a space pebble not said here						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	make	infinitive		a wish				anyway property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wish=Product

Option 3

Hide, it might land on us

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 land	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 land	nsubj
4	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 land	aux
5	land	land	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Hide	conj
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 us	case
7	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 land	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	imperative	you not said here						vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	land	might	it					on us	vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on we=Destination

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Don't wish, it's a real star crashing down to Earth right now

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 wish	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 wish	advmod
3	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 star	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 star	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 star	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 star	det
8	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 star	amod
9	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wish	obl
10	crashing	crash	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 star	acl
11	down	down	ADV	_	10 crashing	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 Earth	case
13	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 crashing	obl
14	right	right	ADV	_	15 now	advmod
15	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 wish	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not wish	imperative · do-support	you not said here				now		vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	is a	present	it	a real star					tree rules
3	crash down	gerund	a real star not said here		Earth			down property	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient to earth=Result

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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