Test 4 · ★ · Saturn and its rings

If the rings were made of rock instead of ice, how would they look?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: rings · What happens: make, look · To what, where: rings

This is test 4 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 made	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rings	det
3	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 made	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 made	aux:pass
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 look	advcl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 rock	case
7	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obl
8	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	10 ice	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	8 instead	fixed
10	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 look	punct
12	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 look	advmod
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 look	aux
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 look	nsubj
15	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 look	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		the rings				of rock; instead ice	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	look	would	rings = ring						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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

Much brighter and shinier than now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Much	much	ADV	_	2 brighter	advmod
2	brighter	bright	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 shinier	cc
4	shinier	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 brighter	conj
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 now	case
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 brighter	obl

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Much darker and less bright

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Much	much	ADV	_	2 darker	advmod
2	darker	dark	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 bright	cc
4	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 bright	advmod
5	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 darker	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

They would be completely invisible

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 invisible	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 invisible	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 invisible	cop
4	completely	completely	ADV	_	5 invisible	advmod
5	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	They					completely, invisible property	tree rules

Option 4

Exactly the same as they look now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Exactly	exactly	ADV	_	3 same	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 same	det
3	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 look	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 look	nsubj
6	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 same	advcl
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 look	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	they				now		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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