Test 2 · ★★ · Pluto, the Kuiper belt, the Oort cloud and comets
my grandad saw Halley's Comet in 1986. if I'm 10 now (2026), how old will I be next time it's bright?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: grandad, I · What happens: see, be · To what, where: Comet, 1986, 10
This is test 2 · ★★ 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 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 grandad | nmod:poss |
| 2 | grandad | grandad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Halley | Halley | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Comet | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Halley | case |
| 6 | Comet | Comet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 1986 | case |
| 8 | 1986 | 1986 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 saw | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 10 | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 10 | nsubj |
| 12 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 10 | cop |
| 13 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 saw | obl |
| 14 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 10 | advmod |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 2026 | punct |
| 16 | 2026 | 2026 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 10 | nmod:unmarked |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 16 2026 | punct |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 old | punct |
| 19 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 old | advmod |
| 20 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 bright | amod |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 bright | aux |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 bright | nsubj |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 bright | cop |
| 24 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 time | amod |
| 25 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 bright | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 bright | nsubj |
| 27 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 bright | cop |
| 28 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 saw | conj |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | my grandad | Halley's Comet | 1986 | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer comet=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is a a condition, not said to happen | present | I | 10 | now | 2026 nmod:unmarked | tree rules | ||
| 3 | is | future | I | time | bright property | tree rules |
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
10
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
76
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 76 | 76 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
45
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 45 | 45 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
86
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 86 | 86 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
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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