Test 1 · Day and night, and the Moon's faces

my bro says the Sun goes round us, look it moves across the sky innit. right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: bro, Sun · What happens: say, go round, look, move · To what, where: us, sky innit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 39 «Day and night, and the Moon's faces» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 bro	nmod:poss
2	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Sun	det
5	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 goes	nsubj
6	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
7	round	round	ADV	_	6 goes	advmod
8	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 goes	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 look	punct
10	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 moves	advcl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 moves	nsubj
12	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	parataxis
13	across	across	ADP	_	16 innit	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 innit	det
15	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 innit	compound
16	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 moves	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 moves	punct
18	right	right	INTJ	_	12 moves	discourse
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my bro				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go round	present	the Sun	us		round property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	look	infinitive	Sun not said here				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	move	present	Sun		the sky innit		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme across innit=Trajectory

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.

The options

Option 1

Yes, the Sun goes round us once every day, east to west

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 goes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Sun	det
4	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 goes	nsubj
5	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	round	round	ADV	_	5 goes	advmod
7	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 goes	obl
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 goes	advmod
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 day	det
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 once	obl:unmarked
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 east	punct
12	east	east	ADV	_	5 goes	advmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 west	mark
14	west	west	ADV	_	12 east	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go round	present	the Sun	us				east, once, round property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

No, the Sun stays still and the sky moves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 stays	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 stays	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Sun	det
4	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 stays	nsubj
5	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	still	still	ADV	_	5 stays	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 moves	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sky	det
9	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 moves	nsubj
10	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 stays	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	present	the Sun				still		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	move	present	the sky						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Yes, but only in summer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 summer	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 summer	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 summer	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 summer	case
6	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, the Earth spins, so the Sun only seems to move

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 spins	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Earth	det
4	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 spins	nsubj
5	spins	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 seems	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	11 seems	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Sun	det
9	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 seems	nsubj
10	only	only	ADV	_	11 seems	advmod
11	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 spins	advcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 move	mark
13	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 seems	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	spin	present	the Earth	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	seem	present	the Sun	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	move	to-infinitive	the Sun not said here	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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