Test 10 · ★ · Galaxies and the Big Bang

How were Penzias and Wilson surprised by their discovery?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: discovery, Penzias · What happens: surprise, discover · To what, where: Penzias

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 24 «Galaxies and the Big Bang» 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 surprised	advmod
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 surprised	aux:pass
3	Penzias	Penzias	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 surprised	nsubj:pass
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 Wilson	cc
5	Wilson	Wilson	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Penzias	conj
6	surprised	surprise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 discovery	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 discovery	nmod:poss
9	discovery	discovery	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 surprised	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 surprised	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	surprise	past · passive	Penzias's discovery	Penzias and Wilson					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer
2	discover		Penzias						nom discovery «act transitive»: poss=agent

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 right answer

They found the radiation by accident, as a puzzling hiss

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	2 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 radiation	det
4	radiation	radiation	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obj
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 accident	case
6	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hiss	punct
8	as	as	ADP	_	11 hiss	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 hiss	det
10	puzzling	puzzling	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hiss	amod
11	hiss	hiss	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	They	the radiation				by accident; as a puzzling hiss	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent radiation=Theme as hiss=Attribute

Option 2

They saw it with their own eyes

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	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 saw	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 eyes	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 eyes	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 eyes	amod
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 saw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	They	it				with their own eyes	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 3

They had been searching for it on purpose for over 50 years

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	4 searching	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 searching	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 searching	aux
4	searching	search	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 searching	obl
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 purpose	case
8	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 searching	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 years	case
10	over	over	ADV	_	11 50	advmod
11	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 years	nummod
12	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 searching	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	search	past · perfect · progressive	They			purpose	year	for it	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for it=Theme on purpose=Location

Option 4

Hubble told them where to look

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hubble	Hubble	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 look	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 look	mark
6	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 told	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Hubble		them = they				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	look not said to happen	to-infinitive	Hubble not said here						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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