Test 1 · ★ · Distances and light years
Zoe says "a light year is a really long time". What's wrong?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Zoe, light year · What happens: say, be · To what, where: long time · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 22 «Distances and light years» 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: Zoe says "a light year is a really long time".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zoe | Zoe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 time | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 year | det |
| 5 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 year | compound |
| 6 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 time | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 time | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 time | det |
| 9 | really | really | ADV | _ | 10 long | advmod |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 time | amod |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 says | ccomp |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 time | punct |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Zoe | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | a light year | a long time | 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.
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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A light year is a distance, not a time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 year | det |
| 2 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 year | compound |
| 3 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 distance | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 distance | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 distance | det |
| 6 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 time | punct |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 time | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 time | det |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 distance | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a light year | a distance and a time | tree rules |
Option 2
Nothing, it is just a year of time measured in space
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 year | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 year | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 year | cop |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 year | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 year | det |
| 7 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 time | case |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 year | nmod |
| 10 | measured | measure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 year | acl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 space | case |
| 12 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 measured | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Nothing | a year | time | tree rules | |||
| 2 | measure | participle | a year not said here | space | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
It is actually quite a short time, about a month
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 time | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 time | cop |
| 3 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 7 time | advmod |
| 4 | quite | quite | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 time | det:predet |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 time | det |
| 6 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 time | amod |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 month | punct |
| 9 | about | about | ADV | _ | 11 month | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 month | det |
| 11 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 time | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | quite short time | actually property | tree rules |
Option 4
It is a speed, how fast light goes, not a time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 speed | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 speed | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 speed | det |
| 4 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 goes | punct |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 fast | advmod |
| 7 | fast | fast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 goes | advcl |
| 8 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 goes | nsubj |
| 9 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 speed | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 time | punct |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 time | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 time | det |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 speed | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | a speed and a time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | present | light | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/22-distances-and-light-years/t1/