Test 6 · ★ · Uranus and Neptune

you're joking, a planet found with maths?? how

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: joke, find · To what, where: planet

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 14 «Uranus and Neptune» 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	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 joking	nsubj
2	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 joking	aux
3	joking	joke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 planet	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 planet	det
6	planet	planet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 joking	obl
7	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 planet	acl
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 maths	case
9	maths	math	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 found	obl
10	??	??	PUNCT	_	3 joking	punct
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 joking	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	joke speech: other	present · progressive	you	a planet					vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	find	participle		a planet not said here				with maths	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

A probe found it and the maths came later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 probe	det
2	probe	probe	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 found	nsubj
3	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 found	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 came	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 maths	det
7	maths	math	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 found	conj
9	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	a probe	it					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	come	past	the maths					late property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Uranus was pulled off course, so they worked out where the hidden planet was

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Uranus	Uranus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 pulled	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pulled	aux:pass
3	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 pulled	compound:prt
5	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pulled	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 worked	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	9 worked	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 worked	nsubj
9	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pulled	conj
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 worked	compound:prt
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 worked	ccomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 planet	det
13	hidden	hidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 planet	amod
14	planet	planet	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 where	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 where	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pull off	past · passive		Uranus	course obl	vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	work out	past	they			vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	the hidden planet		where property	tree rules

Option 3

Mathematicians saw it through the first telescope

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mathematicians	mathematician	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 saw	obj
4	through	through	ADP	_	7 telescope	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 telescope	det
6	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 telescope	amod
7	telescope	telescope	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	Mathematicians	it		the first telescope			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 4

Someone guessed a random spot and got lucky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 guessed	nsubj
2	guessed	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 spot	det
4	random	random	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 spot	amod
5	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 guessed	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 got	cc
7	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 guessed	conj
8	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 got	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guess	past	Someone	a random spot					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Theme
2	get	past	Someone not said here	lucky					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lucky=Stimulus

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