Test 1 · ★★ · Black holes
Leo reckons black holes go round space sucking up everything like a hoover. Is he right?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Leo, black holes, round space · What happens: reckon, go, suck up, be · To what, where: round space, everything
This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 25 «Black holes» 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: Leo reckons black holes go round space sucking up everything like a hoover.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leo | Leo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 reckons | nsubj |
| 2 | reckons | reckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 holes | amod |
| 4 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 go | nsubj |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 reckons | ccomp |
| 6 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 space | amod |
| 7 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 go | obj |
| 8 | sucking | suck | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 space | acl |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 sucking | compound:prt |
| 10 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 8 sucking | obj |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 hoover | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 hoover | det |
| 13 | hoover | hoover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sucking | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 reckons | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reckon | present | Leo | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go | present | black holes | round space | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location space=Theme | ||||
| 3 | suck up | gerund | round space not said here | everything | like a hoover | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent everything=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: Is he right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 right | nsubj |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 right | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Leo | right property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Yes, they move towards anything near them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 move | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 move | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 move | nsubj |
| 4 | move | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 6 anything | case |
| 6 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 move | obl |
| 7 | near | near | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 anything | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | present | they | anything | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme towards anything=Trajectory |
Option 2
No, black holes have no gravity at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 have | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 3 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 holes | amod |
| 4 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 have | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 gravity | det |
| 7 | gravity | gravity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | obj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 all | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 gravity | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | black holes | no gravity | all | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gravity=Patient |
Option 3
Yes, they suck in whole galaxies from anywhere in space at once
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 suck | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 suck | nsubj |
| 4 | suck | suck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 galaxies | case |
| 6 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 galaxies | amod |
| 7 | galaxies | galaxy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 suck | obl |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 anywhere | case |
| 9 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 suck | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 space | case |
| 11 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 suck | obl |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 once | case |
| 13 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 suck | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suck | present | they | whole galaxies | in space | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at once=Source |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
No, far away their pull is like any star of the same mass
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 10 star | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 star | punct |
| 3 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 away | advmod |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 star | advmod |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 pull | nmod:poss |
| 6 | pull | pull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 star | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 star | cop |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 star | case |
| 9 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 star | det |
| 10 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 mass | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 mass | det |
| 13 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 mass | amod |
| 14 | mass | mass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 star | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | their pull | like any star; of the same mass; away property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pull | their = they | nom pull «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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