Test 6 · The night sky in summer and autumn, and the southern sky

ugh it's like 11pm in June in Inverness and it's still not dark, why

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it, pm · What happens: be, not be

This is test 6 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ugh	ugh	INTJ	_	5 11	discourse
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 11	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 11	cop
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 11	case
5	11	11	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
6	pm	p.m.	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 11	nmod:unmarked
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 June	case
8	June	June	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 11	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 Inverness	case
10	Inverness	Inverness	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 June	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 dark	cc
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 dark	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 dark	cop
14	still	still	ADV	_	16 dark	advmod
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 dark	advmod
16	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 June	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 11	punct
18	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 11	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it				june	like 11; pm nmod:unmarked	tree rules
2	not is	present	pm = p.m.				still	dark 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

The Sun is closer to Earth in June

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Sun	det
2	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 closer	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 closer	cop
4	closer	close	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 Earth	case
6	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 closer	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 June	case
8	June	June	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 closer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the Sun		Earth		june	close property	tree rules

Option 2

Street lights reflect off the low summer clouds all night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lights	compound
2	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 reflect	nsubj
3	reflect	reflect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	8 clouds	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 clouds	det
6	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 clouds	amod
7	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 clouds	compound
8	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 reflect	obl
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 night	det
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reflect	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reflect	present	Street lights				night	off the low summer clouds	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

The Moon lights the sky all June

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Moon	det
2	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 lights	nsubj
3	lights	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sky	det
5	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lights	obj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 June	det
7	June	June	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 lights	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	light	present	the Moon	the sky			june		vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sky=Product

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Near midsummer the sky up there never gets fully dark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Near	near	ADP	_	2 midsummer	case
2	midsummer	midsummer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gets	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sky	det
4	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gets	nsubj
5	up	up	ADV	_	6 there	advmod
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 sky	advmod
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 gets	advmod
8	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	fully	fully	ADV	_	8 gets	advmod
10	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 gets	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not get	present	the sky			midsummer		dark, fully property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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