Test 2 · ★ · Distances and light years

If the Sun suddenly went out, how soon would we notice from Earth?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sun, we · What happens: go out, notice · To what, where: Earth

This is test 2 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 went	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Sun	det
3	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
4	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 notice	advcl
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 went	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 soon	advmod
9	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 notice	advmod
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 notice	aux
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 notice	nsubj
12	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	from	from	ADP	_	14 Earth	case
14	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 notice	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 notice	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go out a condition, not said to happen	past	the Sun					suddenly property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	notice	would	we			Earth		soon property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

After about 1.3 seconds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	After	after	ADP	_	4 seconds	case
2	about	about	ADV	_	3 1.3	advmod
3	1.3	1.3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 seconds	nummod
4	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

After a whole year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	After	after	ADP	_	4 year	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 year	det
3	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 year	amod
4	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

After about 8 minutes 20 seconds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	After	after	ADP	_	4 minutes	case
2	about	about	ADV	_	3 8	advmod
3	8	8	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 minutes	nummod
4	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 seconds	nummod
6	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 minutes	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

At that very same moment

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	5 moment	case
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 moment	det
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 same	advmod
4	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 moment	amod
5	moment	moment	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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