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Test 7 · The night sky in summer and autumn, and the southern sky

In a cartoon, a boy in London points at the Southern Cross on a July night. What's wrong?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy · What happens: point, be

This is test 7 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: In a cartoon, a boy in London points at the Southern Cross on a July night.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 points	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cartoon	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 boy	det
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 points	nsubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 London	case
8	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 boy	nmod
9	points	point	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	at	at	ADP	_	13 Cross	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Cross	det
12	Southern	Southern	PROPN	_	13 Cross	flat
13	Cross	Cross	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 points	obl
14	on	on	ADP	_	17 night	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 night	det
16	July	July	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 night	nmod:unmarked
17	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 points	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 points	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	point	present	a boy in London				night	at the Southern Cross; in a cartoon	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in cartoon=Theme

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's wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 wrong	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						wrong property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

The Southern Cross only shows in winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Cross	det
2	Southern	Southern	PROPN	_	3 Cross	flat
3	Cross	Cross	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 shows	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 shows	advmod
5	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 winter	case
7	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shows	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	the Southern Cross				winter		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Nothing, it is right above London every clear night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 London	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 London	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 London	cop
5	right	right	ADV	_	7 London	advmod
6	above	above	ADP	_	7 London	case
7	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 night	det
9	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 night	amod
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 London	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it			Nothing London	night	right property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The Southern Cross cannot be seen from Britain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Cross	det
2	Southern	Southern	PROPN	_	3 Cross	flat
3	Cross	Cross	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 seen	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 seen	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 seen	advmod
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 seen	aux:pass
7	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 Britain	case
9	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 seen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	can · passive		the Southern Cross		Britain			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

Option 4

The Southern Cross is visible only by day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Cross	det
2	Southern	Southern	PROPN	_	3 Cross	flat
3	Cross	Cross	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 visible	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 visible	cop
5	visible	visible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	only	only	ADV	_	8 day	advmod
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 day	case
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 visible	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the Southern Cross				day	visible property	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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