Test 1 · ★★ · Pluto, the Kuiper belt, the Oort cloud and comets
A comet is racing away from the Sun. Which way does its tail point?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: comet, way · What happens: race away, do, point · To what, where: tail point
This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 15 «Pluto, the Kuiper belt, the Oort cloud and comets» 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 comet | det |
| 2 | comet | comet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 racing | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 racing | aux |
| 4 | racing | race | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 racing | advmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 Sun. | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Sun. | det |
| 8 | Sun. | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 does | obl |
| 9 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 10 way | det |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 does | nsubj |
| 11 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 racing | conj |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 point | nmod:poss |
| 13 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 point | compound |
| 14 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 does | obj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 racing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | race away | present · progressive | a comet | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do | present | which way | way's tail point | sunday | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent point=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | point | way | nom point «cognition transitive»: poss=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 · ✓ the right answer
Ahead of it, still away from the Sun
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ahead | ahead | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 it | case |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Ahead | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 away | punct |
| 5 | still | still | ADV | _ | 6 away | advmod |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 1 Ahead | conj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 Sun | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Sun | det |
| 9 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 away | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Down towards the Earth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Down | down | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 2 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 4 Earth | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Earth | det |
| 4 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Down | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Behind it, back towards the Sun it left
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Behind | behind | ADP | _ | 4 back | case |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 back | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 back | punct |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 5 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 7 Sun | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Sun | det |
| 7 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 back | obl |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 left | nsubj |
| 9 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 back | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | Sun | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Straight up, whatever the direction
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Straight | straight | ADV | _ | 2 up | advmod |
| 2 | up | up | ADV | _ | 4 whatever | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 up | punct |
| 4 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 direction | det |
| 6 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 whatever | nsubj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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