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Test 3 · ★ · Distances and light years

Polaris is about 430 light years away. If it had blown up 100 years ago, what would we see tonight?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Polaris, we · What happens: be, blow up, see · To what, where: 430 light years, it

This is test 3 · ★ 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: Polaris is about 430 light years away.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Polaris	Polaris	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 years	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 years	cop
3	about	about	ADV	_	4 430	advmod
4	430	430	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 years	nummod
5	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 years	compound
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 years	advmod
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 years	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Polaris	430 light years				away 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.

Sentence 2: If it had blown up 100 years ago, what would we see tonight?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 blown	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 blown	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 blown	aux
4	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 see	advcl
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 blown	compound:prt
6	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 years	nummod
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ago	obl:unmarked
8	ago	ago	ADV	_	4 blown	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 blown	punct
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 see	obj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 see	aux
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 see	nsubj
13	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	tonight	tonight	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 see	obl:unmarked
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 see	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow up a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		it				ago property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=Patient
2	see	would	we				tonight		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus

The options

Option 1

Polaris exploding right now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Polaris	Polaris	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 exploding	nsubj
2	exploding	explode	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	right	right	ADV	_	4 now	advmod
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 exploding	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	explode	gerund	Polaris				now		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Polaris getting brighter every night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Polaris	polaris	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 getting	nsubj
2	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	brighter	bright	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 getting	xcomp
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 night	det
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 getting	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	gerund	Polaris				night	bright property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

A dark gap where Polaris was

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 gap	det
2	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gap	amod
3	gap	gap	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 was	nsubj
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	5 Polaris	advmod
5	Polaris	Polaris	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 gap	appos
6	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a dark gap						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Polaris still shining as normal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Polaris	Polaris	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 shining	nsubj
2	still	still	ADV	_	3 shining	advmod
3	shining	shine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	as	as	ADP	_	5 normal	case
5	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 shining	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shine	gerund	Polaris				still	as normal	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location

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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