Test 11 · Jupiter's moons

Why could Galileo see only four of Jupiter's moons?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Galileo · What happens: see · To what, where: four

This is test 11 of lesson 11 «Jupiter's moons» of the space 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 see	advmod
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
3	Galileo	Galileo	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 see	nsubj
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 four	advmod
6	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 see	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 moons	case
8	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 moons	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Jupiter	case
10	moons	moon	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 four	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	could	Galileo	four of Jupiter's moons					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer four=Stimulus

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 · ✓ the right answer

The others are tiny and far too faint for his telescope

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 others	det
2	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tiny	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tiny	cop
4	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 faint	cc
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 faint	advmod
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 faint	advmod
8	faint	faint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tiny	conj
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 telescope	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 telescope	nmod:poss
11	telescope	telescope	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 faint	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the others					tiny property	tree rules
2	be		the others not said here					for his telescope; far property	tree rules

Option 2

The others hide behind Jupiter all the time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 others	det
2	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hide	nsubj
3	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	behind	behind	ADP	_	5 Jupiter	case
5	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 hide	obl
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 time	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 time	det
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hide	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	present	the others			Jupiter	time		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind jupiter=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The other moons appeared after his death

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 moons	det
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 moons	amod
3	moons	moon	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 appeared	nsubj
4	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	after	after	ADP	_	7 death	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 death	nmod:poss
7	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 appeared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	appear	past	the other moons				after his death		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	die		his = he						nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

Jupiter had only four moons in 1610

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 four	advmod
4	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 moons	nummod
5	moons	moon	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 1610	case
7	1610	1610	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 had	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Jupiter	four moons		1610			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moon=Patient

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