Test 11 · ★★★ · How stars die
who found pulsars, some old professor?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: find · To what, where: pulsars
This is test 11 · ★★★ 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 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 found | nsubj |
| 2 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | pulsars | pulsar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 found | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 professor | punct |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 professor | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 professor | amod |
| 7 | professor | professor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pulsars | conj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 found | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | pulsars and some old professor | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pulsar=Topic |
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, Isaac Newton found them in 1687 with his telescope
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 found | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | Isaac | Isaac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 found | nsubj |
| 4 | Newton | Newton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Isaac | flat |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 found | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 1687 | case |
| 8 | 1687 | 1687 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 found | obl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 telescope | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 telescope | nmod:poss |
| 11 | telescope | telescope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Isaac | them = they | 1687 | with Isaac's telescope | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |
Option 2
Yes, Galileo in 1610
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 3 Galileo | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | Galileo | Galileo | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 1610 | case |
| 5 | 1610 | 1610 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 Galileo | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
No, a student, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, in 1967
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 student | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 student | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 student | det |
| 4 | student | student | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Bell | punct |
| 6 | Jocelyn | Jocelyn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Bell | compound |
| 7 | Bell | Bell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 student | appos |
| 8 | Burnell | Burnell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Bell | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 1967 | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 1967 | case |
| 11 | 1967 | 1967 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 student | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
No, a space probe in 2017
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 probe | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 probe | det |
| 4 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 probe | compound |
| 5 | probe | probe | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 2017 | case |
| 7 | 2017 | 2017 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 probe | nmod |
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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