Test 5 · ★ · Distances and light years

Which is true about bright stars in the sky?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: be

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 stars	case
5	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stars	amod
6	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 true	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 sky	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sky	det
9	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stars	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about bright stars in the sky; true 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

The brightest ones are always the nearest ones to us

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ones	det
2	brightest	bright	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 ones	amod
3	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ones	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 ones	cop
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 ones	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ones	det
7	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 ones	amod
8	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 us	case
10	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 ones	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the brightest ones	the nearest ones	us			always property	tree rules

Option 2

They are all the same distance away from the Earth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 distance	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 distance	cop
3	all	all	ADV	_	6 distance	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 distance	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 distance	amod
6	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 distance	advmod
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 Earth	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Earth	det
10	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 distance	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	They	the same distance		the Earth		all, away property	tree rules

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

They are at very different distances from us

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 distances	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 distances	cop
3	at	at	ADP	_	6 distances	case
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 different	advmod
5	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 distances	amod
6	distances	distance	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 us	case
8	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 distances	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					at different distances; from us	tree rules

Option 4

They all sit together on the inside of one big sphere

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sit	nsubj
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 sit	advmod
3	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	together	together	ADV	_	3 sit	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 inside	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 inside	det
7	inside	inside	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sit	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 sphere	case
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 sphere	nummod
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sphere	amod
11	sphere	sphere	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 inside	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	present	They			the inside of one big sphere		together property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on inside=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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