Test 1 · ★ · Saturn and its rings
My little brother thinks Saturn's rings are like a hard plastic hoop you could walk on. What is the truth?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: little brother, rings, you, truth · What happens: think, be, walk on · To what, where: hard plastic hoop · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 12 «Saturn and its rings» 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: My little brother thinks Saturn's rings are like a hard plastic hoop you could walk on.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 brother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 brother | amod |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thinks | nsubj |
| 4 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Saturn | Saturn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 rings | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Saturn | case |
| 7 | rings | ring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 hoop | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 hoop | cop |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 hoop | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 hoop | det |
| 11 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 hoop | amod |
| 12 | plastic | plastic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 hoop | amod |
| 13 | hoop | hoop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thinks | ccomp |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 walk | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 walk | aux |
| 16 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 hoop | acl:relcl |
| 17 | on | on | ADV | _ | 16 walk | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thinks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | My little brother | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | Saturn's rings | like a hard plastic hoop | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | walk on | could | you | a hard plastic hoop not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hoop=Trajectory |
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 is the truth?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 truth | det |
| 4 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the truth | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
They are just light, with nothing there at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 light | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 light | cop |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 light | advmod |
| 4 | light | light | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 nothing | punct |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 nothing | case |
| 7 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 light | conj |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 nothing | advmod |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 all | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 nothing | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | They | light property | tree rules |
Option 2
They are one solid ring of rock
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 ring | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 ring | cop |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 ring | nummod |
| 4 | solid | solid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ring | amod |
| 5 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 rock | case |
| 7 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ring | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | They | one solid ring | of rock | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
They are separate chunks of ice each orbiting Saturn
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 chunks | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 chunks | cop |
| 3 | separate | separate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 chunks | amod |
| 4 | chunks | chunk | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 ice | case |
| 6 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 chunks | nmod |
| 7 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 orbiting | nsubj |
| 8 | orbiting | orbit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 chunks | acl:relcl |
| 9 | Saturn | Saturn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 orbiting | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | They | separate chunks | of ice | tree rules | |||
| 2 | orbit | gerund | each | Saturn | tree rules |
Option 4
They are a hoop of frozen gas you could skate on
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hoop | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hoop | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 hoop | det |
| 4 | hoop | hoop | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 gas | case |
| 6 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 gas | amod |
| 7 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hoop | nmod |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 skate | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 skate | aux |
| 10 | skate | skate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 hoop | parataxis |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 skate | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | They | a hoop | of frozen gas | tree rules | |||
| 2 | freeze | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | skate on | could | you | vn vehicle-51.4.1-1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
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