Test 3 · ★ · Galaxies and the Big Bang

If the universe is expanding, what was it like long ago?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: universe · What happens: expand

This is test 3 · ★ 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 expanding	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 universe	det
3	universe	universe	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 expanding	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 expanding	aux
5	expanding	expand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 what	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 expanding	punct
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 what	acl:relcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 was	obj
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 long	case
11	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 ago	advmod
12	ago	ago	ADV	_	8 was	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	expand	present · progressive	the universe						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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

Bigger and colder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 colder	cc
3	colder	cold	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Bigger	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Smaller, hotter and denser

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 hotter	punct
3	hotter	hot	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Smaller	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 denser	cc
5	denser	dense	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Smaller	conj

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

Option 3

Empty of all space

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 space	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 space	det
4	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Empty	obl

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

Option 4

Exactly as it is now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Exactly	exactly	ADV	_	4 is	advmod
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 is	mark
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 is	nsubj
4	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 is	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	it				now	exactly property	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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