Test 4 · The night sky in summer and autumn, and the southern sky
You want to see the Milky Way at its brightest and thickest. Where should you look?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: You · What happens: want, see, look · To what, where: Milky Way
This is test 4 of lesson 21 «The night sky in summer and autumn, and the southern sky» 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 want to see the Milky Way at its brightest and thickest.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 want | nsubj |
| 2 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 see | mark |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 want | xcomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Way | det |
| 6 | Milky | milky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Way | amod |
| 7 | Way | Way | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 see | obj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 brightest | case |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 brightest | nmod:poss |
| 10 | brightest | bright | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 Way | acl:relcl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 thickest | cc |
| 12 | thickest | thick | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 brightest | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 want | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | You | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | You not said here | the Milky Way | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer way=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: Where should you look?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 4 look | advmod |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 look | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 look | nsubj |
| 4 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | should | you | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Straight down at the horizon in the north
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Straight | straight | ADV | _ | 2 down | advmod |
| 2 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 horizon | advmod |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 horizon | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 horizon | det |
| 5 | horizon | horizon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 north | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 north | det |
| 8 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 horizon | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Towards the Plough
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Towards | towards | ADP | _ | 3 Plough | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Plough | det |
| 3 | Plough | Plough | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Towards Sagittarius
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Towards | Towards | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Sagittarius | Sagittarius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Towards | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Towards the Moon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Towards | towards | ADP | _ | 3 Moon | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Moon | det |
| 3 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | 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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