Test 11 · Day and night, and the Moon's faces
A camera points at the North Star all night with the shutter open. What does the picture show?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: camera · What happens: point, do · To what, where: North Star, picture show
This is test 11 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
Sentence 1: A camera points at the North Star all night with the shutter open.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 camera | det |
| 2 | camera | camera | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 points | nsubj |
| 3 | points | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 Star | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Star | det |
| 6 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Star | compound |
| 7 | Star | Star | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 points | obl |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 night | det |
| 9 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 points | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 shutter | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 shutter | det |
| 12 | shutter | shutter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 points | obl |
| 13 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 shutter | amod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 points | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | point | present | a camera | the North Star | night | with the shutter | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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 does the picture show?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 does | nsubj |
| 2 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 show | det |
| 4 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 show | compound |
| 5 | show | show | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 does | obj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 does | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | the picture show | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent show=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Circles of starlight round the North Star
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Circles | circle | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 starlight | case |
| 3 | starlight | starlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Circles | nmod |
| 4 | round | round | ADP | _ | 7 Star | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Star | det |
| 6 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Star | compound |
| 7 | Star | Star | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Circles | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A single still dot for each and every star
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 dot | det |
| 2 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 dot | amod |
| 3 | still | still | ADV | _ | 4 dot | advmod |
| 4 | dot | dot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 each | case |
| 6 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 dot | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 star | cc |
| 8 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 star | det |
| 9 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dot | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The stars all falling slowly down to the ground
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 stars | det |
| 2 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 falling | nsubj |
| 3 | all | all | ADV | _ | 4 falling | advmod |
| 4 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 6 down | advmod |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 falling | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 ground | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ground | det |
| 9 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 down | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | gerund | the stars | all, down property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
A black sky with nothing in it at all, all night
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 sky | det |
| 2 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sky | amod |
| 3 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 nothing | case |
| 5 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 sky | nmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 nothing | nmod |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 all | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 nothing | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 night | punct |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 night | det |
| 12 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sky | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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