Test 8 · Constellations and the night sky in winter and spring
You see a backwards question mark in the south on a spring evening. What are you looking at?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: You · What happens: see, look · To what, where: backwards question mark, south
This is test 8 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
Sentence 1: You see a backwards question mark in the south on a spring evening.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 see | nsubj |
| 2 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 mark | det |
| 4 | backwards | backwards | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 mark | amod |
| 5 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mark | compound |
| 6 | mark | mark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 see | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 south | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 south | det |
| 9 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mark | nmod |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 evening | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 evening | det |
| 12 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 evening | compound |
| 13 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 south | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 see | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | You | a backwards question mark | the south on a spring evening | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mark=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.
Sentence 2: What are you looking at?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 looking | obl |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 looking | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 looking | nsubj |
| 4 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 looking | obl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 looking | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present · progressive | you | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The Sickle of Leo
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Sickle | det |
| 2 | Sickle | Sickle | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Leo | case |
| 4 | Leo | Leo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Sickle | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The Plough's handle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Plough | det |
| 2 | Plough | Plough | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 handle | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Plough | case |
| 4 | handle | handle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Cassiopeia
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cassiopeia | cassiopeia | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Orion's belt
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Orion | Orion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 belt | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Orion | case |
| 3 | belt | belt | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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