Test 10 · Constellations and the night sky in winter and spring

Which is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 10 of lesson 20 «Constellations and the night sky in winter and spring» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	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 · ← Mova's choice

Cassiopeia only rises in summer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cassiopeia	Cassiopeia	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 rises	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 rises	advmod
3	rises	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 summer	case
5	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rises	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise	present	Cassiopeia				summer		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Cassiopeia is on the other side of Polaris from the Plough

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cassiopeia	Cassiopeia	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 side	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 side	cop
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 side	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 side	det
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 side	amod
6	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Polaris	case
8	Polaris	Polaris	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 side	nmod
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 Plough	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Plough	det
11	Plough	Plough	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Polaris	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Cassiopeia			the other side		of Polaris from the Plough	tree rules

Option 3

Cassiopeia is part of Orion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cassiopeia	cassiopeia	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 part	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 part	cop
3	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Orion	case
5	Orion	Orion	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 part	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Cassiopeia	part				of Orion	tree rules

Option 4

Cassiopeia is the brightest single star in the northern sky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cassiopeia	Cassiopeia	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 star	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 star	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 star	det
4	brightest	bright	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 star	amod
5	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 star	amod
6	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 sky	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sky	det
9	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 sky	amod
10	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 star	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Cassiopeia	the brightest single star		the northern sky			tree rules

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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