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Test 5 · ★ · Compasses and the magnetic Earth

Granny saw the northern lights from Scotland. What made them?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Granny · What happens: see, make · To what, where: northern lights, Scotland, lights

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 30 «Compasses and the magnetic Earth» 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: Granny saw the northern lights from Scotland.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Granny	Granny	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lights	det
4	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lights	amod
5	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 saw	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 Scotland	case
7	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 lights	nmod
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	Granny	the northern lights		Scotland			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=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: What made them?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	obj
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past		lights = light					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material they=Product

The options

Option 1

Big city lights reflected by clouds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lights	amod
2	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lights	compound
3	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	reflected	reflect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 lights	acl
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 clouds	case
6	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 reflected	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reflect	participle		Big city lights not said here				by clouds	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Lightning far away over the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 far	obl:unmarked
2	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 away	advmod
3	away	away	ADV	_	root	root
4	over	over	ADP	_	6 sea	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sea	det
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 away	obl

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Charged bits from the Sun hitting the high air near the poles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Charged	charge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 bits	amod
2	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 Sun	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Sun	det
5	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 bits	nmod
6	hitting	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 bits	acl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 air	det
8	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 air	amod
9	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hitting	obj
10	near	near	ADP	_	12 poles	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 poles	det
12	poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hitting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	charge	participle							vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hit	gerund	Charged bits from the Sun not said here	the high air		the poles			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent air=Theme near pole=Destination

Option 4

Sunlight bouncing off the Arctic ice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	bouncing	bounce	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Sunlight	acl
3	off	off	ADP	_	6 ice	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ice	det
5	Arctic	arctic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ice	amod
6	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bouncing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bounce off	gerund	Sunlight not said here	the Arctic ice					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ice=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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