Test 5 · Jupiter's moons
A sailor in 1680 has an accurate table of when Jupiter's moons slip into its shadow. What can he work out from it on land?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: sailor, moons, Jupiter · What happens: have, slip, shadow, work out · To what, where: accurate table, shadow, sailor
This is test 5 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
Sentence 1: A sailor in 1680 has an accurate table of when Jupiter's moons slip into its shadow.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 sailor | det |
| 2 | sailor | sailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 has | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 1680 | case |
| 4 | 1680 | 1680 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 sailor | nmod |
| 5 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 table | det |
| 7 | accurate | accurate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 table | amod |
| 8 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 has | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 slip | case |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 slip | advmod |
| 11 | Jupiter | Jupiter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 moons | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 Jupiter | case |
| 13 | moons | moon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 slip | nsubj |
| 14 | slip | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 table | acl:relcl |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 shadow | case |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 shadow | nmod:poss |
| 17 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 slip | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a sailor in 1680 | a accurate table | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent table=Patient | ||||
| 2 | slip | present | Jupiter's moons | sailor's shadow | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | shadow | sailor | nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=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 can he work out from it on land?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 work | obj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 work | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 work | nsubj |
| 4 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 work | compound:prt |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 work | obl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 land | case |
| 9 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 work | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 work | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work out | can | Jupiter | sailor | on land | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1
Tomorrow's weather
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tomorrow | tomorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 weather | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Tomorrow | case |
| 3 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weather | Tomorrow | nom weather «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 2
His age
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 age | nmod:poss |
| 2 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
His longitude
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 longitude | nmod:poss |
| 2 | longitude | longitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The depth of the sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 depth | det |
| 2 | depth | depth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 sea | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sea | det |
| 5 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 depth | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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