Test 1 · ★★★ · How stars die

Jack says Betelgeuse is gonna blow up tonight, he saw it on TikTok. what's true?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jack, Betelgeuse · What happens: say, be, see · To what, where: it, TikTok · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★★★ of lesson 19 «How stars die» 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	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Betelgeuse	Betelgeuse	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 blow	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 blow	cop
5	gonna	gonna	PART	_	6 blow	mark
6	blow	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 says	ccomp
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 blow	compound:prt
8	tonight	tonight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blow	obl:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 saw	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 saw	nsubj
11	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 saw	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 TikTok	case
14	TikTok	TikTok	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 saw	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 true	punct
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 true	nsubj
17	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 true	cop
18	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 saw	conj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Jack					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is	present	Betelgeuse			tonight	blow property	tree rules
3	see	past	Betelgeuse	it	TikTok			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
4	is	present					true 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

It is sure to explode tonight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sure	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sure	cop
3	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 explode	mark
5	explode	explode	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sure	xcomp
6	tonight	tonight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 explode	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					sure property	tree rules
2	explode	to-infinitive					tonight		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It will never explode

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 explode	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 explode	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 explode	advmod
4	explode	explode	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not explode	future	It						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It exploded last year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 exploded	nsubj
2	exploded	explode	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 year	amod
4	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 exploded	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	explode	past	It				year		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It will explode sometime within about 100,000 years; nobody knows when

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 explode	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 explode	aux
3	explode	explode	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	sometime	sometime	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 explode	advmod
5	within	within	ADP	_	8 years	case
6	about	about	ADV	_	7 100,000	advmod
7	100,000	100000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 years	nummod
8	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 explode	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 knows	punct
10	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 knows	nsubj
11	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 explode	parataxis
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 knows	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	explode	future	It				year	sometime property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	know	present	nobody						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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