Test 8 · ★ · Uranus and Neptune

Why do we know so little about Uranus and Neptune?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: we · What happens: know · To what, where: little Uranus

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 know	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 know	aux
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 know	nsubj
4	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 little	advmod
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Uranus	amod
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 Uranus	case
8	Uranus	Uranus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 know	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 Neptune	cc
10	Neptune	Neptune	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Uranus	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present · do-support	we	little Uranus and Neptune					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer uranus=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Only one spacecraft has ever visited them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 one	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 spacecraft	nummod
3	spacecraft	spacecraft	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 visited	nsubj
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 visited	aux
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 visited	advmod
6	visited	visit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 visited	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	visit	present · perfect	one spacecraft	them = they			ever		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent

Option 2

They were only discovered last year

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 discovered	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 discovered	aux:pass
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 discovered	advmod
4	discovered	discover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 year	amod
6	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 discovered	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	discover	past · passive		They			year		vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

Option 3

They are hidden behind the Sun

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	3 hidden	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hidden	aux:pass
3	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	behind	behind	ADP	_	6 Sun	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Sun	det
6	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 hidden	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	present · passive		They		the Sun			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient behind sun=Location

Option 4

No telescope on Earth has ever been able to see them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 telescope	det
2	telescope	telescope	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 able	nsubj
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 Earth	case
4	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 telescope	nmod
5	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 able	aux
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	8 able	advmod
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 able	cop
8	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 see	mark
10	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 able	xcomp
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present · perfect	no telescope on Earth				ever	able property	tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive	no telescope on Earth not said here	them = they					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=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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