Test 6 · Day and night, and the Moon's faces
In a cartoon, a crescent Moon has a star shining inside its dark part. What's wrong?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: crescent Moon, star · What happens: have, shine, be · To what, where: star, cartoon, dark part
This is test 6 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: In a cartoon, a crescent Moon has a star shining inside its dark part.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 cartoon | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cartoon | det |
| 3 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 has | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cartoon | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 Moon | det |
| 6 | crescent | crescent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Moon | amod |
| 7 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 has | nsubj |
| 8 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 star | det |
| 10 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 has | obj |
| 11 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 star | acl |
| 12 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 15 part | case |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 part | nmod:poss |
| 14 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 part | amod |
| 15 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shining | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a crescent Moon | a star | a cartoon | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent star=Patient | |||
| 2 | shine | gerund | a star not said here | Moon's dark part | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside part=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: What's wrong?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 wrong | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrong | cop |
| 3 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | wrong property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The Moon has a hole in it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Moon | det |
| 2 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 hole | det |
| 5 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hole | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the Moon | a hole | hole | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Patient |
Option 2
Nothing, stars are closer than the Moon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 closer | punct |
| 3 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 closer | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 closer | cop |
| 5 | closer | close | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 Nothing | amod |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 Moon | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Moon | det |
| 8 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 closer | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | stars | than the Moon; close property | tree rules |
Option 3
The crescent should be blue
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 crescent | det |
| 2 | crescent | crescent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 blue | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 blue | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 blue | cop |
| 5 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | should | the crescent | blue property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The dark part is still the Moon, so it would hide any star behind it
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 part | det |
| 2 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 part | amod |
| 3 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Moon | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 Moon | cop |
| 5 | still | still | ADV | _ | 7 Moon | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Moon | det |
| 7 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hide | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 hide | advmod |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 hide | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 hide | aux |
| 12 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 Moon | acl:relcl |
| 13 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 star | det |
| 14 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hide | obj |
| 15 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 hide | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the dark part | the Moon | still | tree rules | |||
| 2 | hide | would | part | any star | star | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent star=Patient behind it=Location |
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