Test 3 · Day and night, and the Moon's faces
Granny on the phone from Sydney says "good morning" as you go to bed. How can that be?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Granny, you, that · What happens: say, go, be · To what, where: bed · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 3 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: Granny on the phone from Sydney says "good morning" as you go to bed.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Granny | granny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 says | nsubj |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 phone | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 phone | det |
| 4 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Granny | nmod |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 Sydney | case |
| 6 | Sydney | Sydney | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 phone | nmod |
| 7 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 morning | punct |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 morning | amod |
| 10 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 says | obj |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 morning | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 go | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 go | nsubj |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 says | ccomp |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 bed | case |
| 16 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 go | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Granny on the phone from Sydney | morning | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go | present | you | bed | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location |
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: How can that be?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 be | advmod |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 be | aux |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 be | nsubj |
| 4 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 be | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | can | can | that | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Australia has two suns
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 suns | nummod |
| 4 | suns | sun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 has | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Australia | two suns | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sun=Patient |
Option 2
The Sun goes to Sydney first every day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Sun | det |
| 2 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 goes | nsubj |
| 3 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Sydney | case |
| 5 | Sydney | Sydney | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 goes | obl |
| 6 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 goes | advmod |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 day | det |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 goes | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | the Sun | Sydney | day | first property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sydney=Initial_Location |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Sydney is on the side of the Earth now turning to face the Sun
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sydney | Sydney | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 side | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 side | cop |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 side | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 side | det |
| 5 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Earth | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Earth | det |
| 8 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 side | nmod |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 turning | advmod |
| 10 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 side | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 face | mark |
| 12 | face | face | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 turning | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Sun | det |
| 14 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 face | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Sydney | the side | of the Earth | tree rules | |||
| 2 | turn | gerund | the side not said here | now | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | face | to-infinitive | the side not said here | the Sun | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sun=Destination |
Option 4
She is confused about the time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 confused | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 confused | cop |
| 3 | confused | confused | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 confused | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | She | time | confused property | tree rules |
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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