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Test 8 · The Milky Way

Mia in Melbourne sees two misty patches far from the Milky Way's band. What are they likely to be?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mia · What happens: see, be · To what, where: two misty patches, band

This is test 8 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

Sentence 1: Mia in Melbourne sees two misty patches far from the Milky Way's band.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sees	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 Melbourne	case
3	Melbourne	Melbourne	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mia	nmod
4	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 patches	nummod
6	misty	misty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 patches	amod
7	patches	patch	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sees	obj
8	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 band	advmod
9	from	from	ADP	_	14 band	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Way	det
11	Milky	milky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Way	amod
12	Way	Way	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 band	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 Way	case
14	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sees	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sees	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	Mia in Melbourne	two misty patches		the Milky Way's band			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer patch=Stimulus

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: What are they likely to be?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 likely	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 likely	cop
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 likely	nsubj
4	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 be	mark
6	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 likely	xcomp
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 likely	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						likely property	tree rules
2	be	to-infinitive							vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Two comets that never move

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 comets	nummod
2	comets	comet	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 move	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 move	advmod
5	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 comets	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not move	present	Two comets						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Dust on her telescope

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 telescope	case
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 telescope	nmod:poss
4	telescope	telescope	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dust	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The Magellanic Clouds, small galaxies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Clouds	det
2	Magellanic	Magellanic	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Clouds	compound
3	Clouds	Cloud	PROPN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 galaxies	punct
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 galaxies	amod
6	galaxies	galaxy	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 Clouds	conj

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

Option 4

Two clouds of smoke from fires

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 clouds	nummod
2	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 smoke	case
4	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 clouds	nmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 fires	case
6	fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 clouds	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cloud			smoke		fires			nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient from=place

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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