Test 3 · Saturn's moons
In a film, a spaceship lands on Titan and sees a clear blue sky with no clouds. What is wrong?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: spaceship · What happens: land, see, be · To what, where: film, clear blue sky
This is test 3 of lesson 13 «Saturn'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: In a film, a spaceship lands on Titan and sees a clear blue sky with no clouds.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 film | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 film | det |
| 3 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lands | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 film | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 spaceship | det |
| 6 | spaceship | spaceship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lands | nsubj |
| 7 | lands | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 Titan | case |
| 9 | Titan | Titan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 lands | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sees | cc |
| 11 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 lands | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 sky | det |
| 13 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sky | amod |
| 14 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sky | amod |
| 15 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sees | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 clouds | case |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 clouds | det |
| 18 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sees | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lands | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | land | present | a spaceship | a film | on Titan | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in film=Destination | |||
| 2 | see | present | a spaceship not said here | a clear blue sky | with no clouds | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sky=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.
Sentence 2: What is wrong?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 wrong | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrong | cop |
| 3 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | wrong property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Nothing, that is exactly right
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 right | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 Nothing | nmod |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 right | cop |
| 5 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 6 right | advmod |
| 6 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Nothing | exactly, right property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Titan's sky is always black with stars
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Titan | Titan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sky | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Titan | case |
| 3 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 black | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 black | cop |
| 5 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 6 black | advmod |
| 6 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 stars | case |
| 8 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 black | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Titan's sky | with stars; always, black property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Titan has a thick hazy atmosphere
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Titan | Titan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 atmosphere | det |
| 4 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 atmosphere | amod |
| 5 | hazy | hazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 atmosphere | amod |
| 6 | atmosphere | atmosphere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 has | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Titan | a thick hazy atmosphere | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent atmosphere=Patient |
Option 4
Titan has no sky because it has no air
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Titan | Titan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 sky | det |
| 4 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 has | obj |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 7 has | mark |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 has | nsubj |
| 7 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 has | advcl |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 air | det |
| 9 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 has | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Titan | no sky | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sky=Patient | ||||
| 2 | have | present | sky | no air | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Patient |
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