Test 7 · The Milky Way

Which is true about the black hole at the centre of our galaxy?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 7 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	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	_	7 hole	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hole	det
6	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hole	amod
7	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 true	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 centre	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 centre	det
10	centre	centre	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hole	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 galaxy	case
12	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 galaxy	nmod:poss
13	galaxy	galaxy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 centre	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about the black hole at the centre of our galaxy; 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 · ← Mova's choice

It will swallow the Earth some time next year, bit by bit

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	3 swallow	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 swallow	aux
3	swallow	swallow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Earth	det
5	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 swallow	obj
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 time	det
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swallow	obl:unmarked
8	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 year	amod
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swallow	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bit	punct
11	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swallow	obl
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 bit	case
13	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swallow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swallow	future	It	the Earth			time; year	by bit; bit obl	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earth=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It is about 4 million times the mass of the Sun

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	8 mass	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 mass	cop
3	about	about	ADV	_	5 million	advmod
4	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 million	compound
5	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 times	nummod
6	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 mass	obl:unmarked
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mass	det
8	mass	mass	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 Sun	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Sun	det
11	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 mass	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	the mass			time	of the Sun	tree rules

Option 3

It is only a myth, and there is no evidence for it at all

The tree, 14 words

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	5 myth	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 myth	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 myth	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 myth	det
5	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 is	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 is	cc
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 is	expl
9	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 myth	parataxis
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 evidence	det
11	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 is	nsubj
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 evidence	nmod
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 all	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 myth	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a myth		all			tree rules
2	be	present	no evidence for myth			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It is about the size and mass of the Earth, only darker

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	5 size	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 size	cop
3	about	about	ADV	_	5 size	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 size	det
5	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 mass	cc
7	mass	mass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 size	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 Earth	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Earth	det
10	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 mass	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 size	punct
12	only	only	ADV	_	13 darker	advmod
13	darker	dark	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 size	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	the size and mass of the Earth				about property	tree rules
2	be								tree rules

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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