Test 8 · ★ · Galaxies and the Big Bang
In a cartoon, someone stands safely outside the universe watching the Big Bang go off. What is wrong?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: someone, universe, Big Bang · What happens: stand, watch, go off, be · To what, where: cartoon, Big Bang
This is test 8 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: In a cartoon, someone stands safely outside the universe watching the Big Bang go off.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 cartoon | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cartoon | det |
| 3 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stands | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cartoon | punct |
| 5 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 stands | nsubj |
| 6 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 6 stands | advmod |
| 8 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 10 universe | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 universe | det |
| 10 | universe | universe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stands | obl |
| 11 | watching | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 universe | acl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Bang | det |
| 13 | Big | Big | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Bang | compound |
| 14 | Bang | Bang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 watching | obj |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 watching | xcomp |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 go | compound:prt |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stands | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | present | someone | a cartoon | outside the universe; safely property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cartoon=Location | |||
| 2 | watch | gerund | the universe not said here | the Big Bang | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go off | infinitive | the Big Bang not said here | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |
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 is wrong?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 wrong | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrong | cop |
| 3 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | wrong property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
There was no outside: all of space itself was stretching
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 outside | det |
| 4 | outside | outside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 stretching | punct |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 stretching | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 space | case |
| 8 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 all | nmod |
| 9 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 8 space | nmod:unmarked |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 stretching | aux |
| 11 | stretching | stretch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 was | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | no outside | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stretch | past · progressive | all | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 2
The Big Bang was much too quiet and dark for anyone to watch
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Bang | det |
| 2 | Big | Big | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Bang | compound |
| 3 | Bang | Bang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 quiet | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 quiet | cop |
| 5 | much | much | ADV | _ | 7 quiet | advmod |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 quiet | advmod |
| 7 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 dark | cc |
| 9 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 quiet | conj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 anyone | case |
| 11 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 quiet | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 watch | mark |
| 13 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 anyone | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Big Bang | for anyone; quiet property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the Big Bang not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | watch | to-infinitive | the Big Bang not said here | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
The Big Bang happened on Earth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Bang | det |
| 2 | Big | Big | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Bang | compound |
| 3 | Bang | Bang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 happened | nsubj |
| 4 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 Earth | case |
| 6 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 happened | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | the Big Bang | Earth | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on earth=Location |
Option 4
Nothing, that is how it was
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 how | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 how | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 how | cop |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 was | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 how | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | that | how property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | past | it | 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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