Test 6 · ★★★ · Olympiad: speed, space and seasons ★★★

In a cartoon, an astronaut on the Moon looks up at a bright blue daytime sky. Fix it.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: astronaut, you · What happens: look up, fix · To what, where: astronaut

This is test 6 · ★★★ of lesson 44 «Olympiad: speed, space and seasons ★★★» 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, an astronaut on the Moon looks up at a bright blue daytime sky.

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	10 looks	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cartoon	punct
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 astronaut	det
6	astronaut	astronaut	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 looks	nsubj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 Moon	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Moon	det
9	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 astronaut	nmod
10	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 looks	compound:prt
12	at	at	ADP	_	17 sky	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 sky	det
14	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 sky	amod
15	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 sky	amod
16	daytime	daytime	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sky	compound
17	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 looks	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 looks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look up	present	a astronaut on the Moon					at a bright blue daytime sky; in a cartoon	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in cartoon=Theme

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: Fix it.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fix	fix	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Fix	obj
3	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Fix	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fix	imperative	you not said here	astronaut					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The sky would be green on the Moon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sky	det
2	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 green	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 green	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 green	cop
5	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 Moon	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Moon	det
8	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 green	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	the sky			the Moon		green property	tree rules

Option 2

The sky would be orange all day long, like one long sunset

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sky	det
2	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 orange	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 orange	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 orange	cop
5	orange	orange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 long	obl:unmarked
8	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 orange	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sunset	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	13 sunset	case
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 sunset	nummod
12	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 sunset	amod
13	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 orange	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	the sky					long, orange property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The sky would be black, with no air to scatter blue light

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sky	det
2	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 black	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 black	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 black	cop
5	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 air	punct
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 air	case
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 air	det
9	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 black	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 scatter	mark
11	scatter	scatter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 air	acl
12	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 light	amod
13	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 scatter	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	the sky					with no air; black property	tree rules
2	scatter	to-infinitive	the sky not said here	blue light					vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent light=Theme

Option 4

Nothing, the sky is blue everywhere

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	_	6 blue	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sky	det
4	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blue	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 blue	cop
6	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Nothing	amod
7	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 blue	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the sky					blue, everywhere property	tree rules

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