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Test 9 · The Milky Way

Your nan says she could see the Milky Way from her garden as a girl but you can't today. Most likely why?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nan · What happens: say, see · To what, where: Milky Way, garden · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 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: Your nan says she could see the Milky Way from her garden as a girl but you can't today.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 nan	nmod:poss
2	nan	nan	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 see	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 see	aux
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 says	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Way	det
8	Milky	milky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Way	amod
9	Way	Way	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 see	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 garden	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 garden	nmod:poss
12	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 see	obl
13	as	as	ADP	_	15 girl	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 girl	det
15	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 see	obl
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 ca	cc
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 ca	nsubj
18	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 see	parataxis
19	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 ca	advmod
20	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ca	obl:unmarked
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Your nan						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	see	could	nan	the Milky Way		nan's garden		as a girl	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus as girl=Attribute

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: Most likely why?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 likely	amod
2	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 why	amod
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 why	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Stars were brighter in the past

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 brighter	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 brighter	cop
3	brighter	bright	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 past	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 past	det
6	past	past	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brighter	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Stars			the past		bright property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

More light pollution now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	More	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 pollution	amod
2	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pollution	compound
3	pollution	pollution	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 pollution	advmod

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

Option 3

The Milky Way has moved away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Way	det
2	Milky	milky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Way	amod
3	Way	Way	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 moved	nsubj
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 moved	aux
5	moved	move	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 moved	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move away	present · perfect	the Milky Way					away property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Her eyes were special

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 eyes	nmod:poss
2	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 special	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 special	cop
4	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Her eyes					special property	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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