Test 2 · The Milky Way

Why does the Milky Way look like a band across the sky, not a round blob?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Milky Way · What happens: look

This is test 2 of lesson 23 «The Milky Way» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 look	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 look	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Way	det
4	Milky	milky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Way	amod
5	Way	Way	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 look	nsubj
6	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 band	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 band	det
9	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 look	obl
10	across	across	ADP	_	12 sky	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sky	det
12	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 look	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 blob	punct
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 blob	advmod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 blob	det
16	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 blob	amod
17	blob	blob	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sky	conj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 look	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present · do-support	the Milky Way					like a band; across the sky and a round blob	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent across sky=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The Earth's air stretches the round galaxy into a band

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Earth	det
2	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 air	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Earth	case
4	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stretches	nsubj
5	stretches	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 galaxy	det
7	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 galaxy	amod
8	galaxy	galaxy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stretches	obj
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 band	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 band	det
11	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stretches	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stretch	present	the Earth's air	the round galaxy				into a band result	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent galaxy=Patient into band=Result

Option 2

The galaxy is a long thin tube

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 galaxy	det
2	galaxy	galaxy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tube	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 tube	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tube	det
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tube	amod
6	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tube	amod
7	tube	tube	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the galaxy	a long thin tube					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

We are inside a flat disc and look along it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 disc	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 disc	cop
3	inside	inside	ADP	_	6 disc	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 disc	det
5	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 disc	amod
6	disc	disc	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 look	cc
8	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 disc	conj
9	along	along	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	We			a flat disc			tree rules
2	look	infinitive	We not said here					along disc	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent along it=Theme

Option 4

Only one row of stars exists

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 one	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 row	nummod
3	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 exists	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 stars	case
5	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 row	nmod
6	exists	exist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exist	present	one row of stars						vn exist-47.1 «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.

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