Test 5 · Meteors, meteorites and shooting stars

If you face the wrong way on Perseid night, will you miss all the meteors?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: face, miss · To what, where: wrong way, meteors

This is test 5 of lesson 16 «Meteors, meteorites and shooting stars» 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 face	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 face	nsubj
3	face	face	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 miss	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 way	det
5	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 way	amod
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 face	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 night	case
8	Perseid	Perseid	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 night	compound
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 way	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 face	punct
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 miss	aux
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 miss	nsubj
13	miss	miss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 meteors	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 meteors	det
16	meteors	meteor	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 miss	obj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 miss	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	face a condition, not said to happen	present	you	the wrong way			on Perseid night		vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent way=Destination
2	miss	future	you	all meteors					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer meteor=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

Yes, they only appear right at the radiant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 appear	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 appear	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 appear	advmod
5	appear	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	right	right	ADV	_	5 appear	advmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 radiant	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 radiant	det
9	radiant	radiant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 appear	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	appear	present	they			the radiant		right property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at radiant=Location

Option 2

Yes, you must look straight at the Moon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 look	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 look	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 look	aux
5	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	straight	straight	ADV	_	5 look	advmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 Moon	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Moon	det
9	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	must	you					at the Moon; straight property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at moon=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, they can cross any part of the sky though they seem to come from one point

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 cross	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cross	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 cross	aux
5	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 part	det
7	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cross	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 sky	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sky	det
10	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 part	nmod
11	though	though	SCONJ	_	13 seem	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 seem	nsubj
13	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cross	advcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 come	mark
15	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 seem	xcomp
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 point	case
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 point	nummod
18	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	cross	can	they	any part of the sky		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Patient
2	seem	present	they			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	come	to-infinitive	they not said here		one point	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from point=Initial_Location

Option 4

No, because they all fall towards the ground near you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 fall	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fall	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 fall	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fall	nsubj
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 they	det
6	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	towards	towards	ADP	_	9 ground	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ground	det
9	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fall	obl
10	near	near	ADP	_	11 you	case
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 fall	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	present	they					towards the ground; near you	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near you=Location

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