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Test 3 · ★ · Mirrors, rainbows and the blue sky

After a big volcano erupts, sunsets around the world look extra red. Why?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: big volcano · What happens: erupt, sunset, look · To what, where: world

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 21 «Mirrors, rainbows and the blue sky» of the physics 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: After a big volcano erupts, sunsets around the world look extra red.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	After	after	SCONJ	_	5 erupts	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 volcano	det
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 volcano	amod
4	volcano	volcano	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 erupts	nsubj
5	erupts	erupt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 sunsets	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 erupts	punct
7	sunsets	sunset	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	around	around	ADP	_	10 world	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 world	det
10	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sunsets	obl
11	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 sunsets	xcomp
12	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 red	amod
13	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 look	xcomp
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sunsets	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	erupt	present	a big volcano						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sunset	present				the world			tree rules
3	look	infinitive						red property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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: Why?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1

The volcano heats up the Sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 volcano	det
2	volcano	volcano	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heats	nsubj
3	heats	heat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 heats	compound:prt
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Sun	det
6	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 heats	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	heat up	present	the volcano	the Sun					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sun=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Glowing light from the hot lava reflects all over the sky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Glowing	glow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 reflects	csubj
2	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Glowing	obj
3	from	from	ADP	_	6 lava	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lava	det
5	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lava	amod
6	lava	lava	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Glowing	obl
7	reflects	reflect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	all	all	ADV	_	11 sky	advmod
9	over	over	ADP	_	11 sky	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sky	det
11	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reflects	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glow	gerund		light		the hot lava			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent light=Theme
2	reflect	present	Glowing	the sky					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Dust in the air scatters away even more of the blue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scatters	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 air	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 air	det
4	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dust	nmod
5	scatters	scatter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 scatters	advmod
7	even	even	ADV	_	8 more	advmod
8	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 scatters	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 blue	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 blue	det
11	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 more	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scatter away	present	Dust in the air	more				away property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent more=Theme

Option 4

The volcano paints the clouds red

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 volcano	det
2	volcano	volcano	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 paints	nsubj
3	paints	paint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 clouds	det
5	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 paints	obj
6	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 paints	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	present	the volcano	the clouds				red property	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent cloud=Destination

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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