Test 6 · Constellations and the night sky in winter and spring

If there were no agreed list of constellations, what would be harder?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: agreed list, constellations · What happens: be, agree, list · To what, where: constellations

This is test 6 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 were	mark
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 were	expl
3	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 list	det
5	agreed	agree	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 list	amod
6	list	list	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 were	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 constellations	case
8	constellations	constellation	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 list	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 harder	punct
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 harder	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 harder	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 harder	cop
13	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 constellations	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 were	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	no agreed list of constellations		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	agree speech: agree	participle					vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	would	constellations			hard property	tree rules
4	list			constellations			nom list «communication transitive»: of=patient

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

Seeing the stars at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 stars	det
3	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Seeing	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 night	case
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Seeing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	gerund		the stars			night		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer star=Stimulus

Option 2

Keeping the stars from moving

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 stars	det
3	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Keeping	obj
4	from	from	SCONJ	_	5 moving	mark
5	moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Keeping	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	gerund		the stars					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent star=Theme
2	move	gerund							vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Finding the Moon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Finding	find	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Moon	det
3	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Finding	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	gerund		the Moon					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moon=Topic

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Telling people exactly which part of the sky you mean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 mean	csubj
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Telling	iobj
3	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	5 part	advmod
4	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	5 part	det
5	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Telling	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 sky	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sky	det
8	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 part	nmod
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 mean	nsubj
10	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	gerund		which part of the sky	people				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent people=Recipient part=Topic
2	mean	present	you						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

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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