Test 2 · ★★ · Black holes
A film shows a black hole as a bright glowing ball. What is wrong?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: film · What happens: show, glow, be · To what, where: black hole
This is test 2 · ★★ 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: A film shows a black hole as a bright glowing ball.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 film | det |
| 2 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | nsubj |
| 3 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hole | det |
| 5 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hole | amod |
| 6 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | obj |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 ball | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 ball | det |
| 9 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ball | amod |
| 10 | glowing | glow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 ball | amod |
| 11 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hole | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | a film | a black hole | as a bright glowing ball | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent hole=Recipient | |||
| 2 | glow | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: 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
Nothing, black holes shine more brightly than any star does
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 11 does | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 shine | punct |
| 3 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 holes | amod |
| 4 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 shine | nsubj |
| 5 | shine | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Nothing | parataxis |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 brightly | advmod |
| 7 | brightly | brightly | ADV | _ | 5 shine | advmod |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 star | case |
| 9 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 star | det |
| 10 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 brightly | obl |
| 11 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | present | black holes | brightly property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do | present | Nothing | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Black holes are always bright purple, not white or yellow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 holes | amod |
| 2 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 purple | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 purple | cop |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 6 purple | advmod |
| 5 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 purple | amod |
| 6 | purple | purple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 white | punct |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 white | advmod |
| 9 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 purple | conj |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 yellow | cc |
| 11 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 purple | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Black holes | always, purple property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not be | Black holes not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | be | Black holes not said here | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Light cannot escape it, so the hole itself is dark
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 escape | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 escape | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 escape | advmod |
| 4 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 escape | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dark | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 dark | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hole | det |
| 9 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dark | nsubj |
| 10 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 9 hole | nmod:unmarked |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 dark | cop |
| 12 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 escape | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not escape | can | Light | it | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the hole hole | dark property | tree rules |
Option 4
Black holes are far too small to show up on a big screen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 holes | amod |
| 2 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 small | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 small | cop |
| 4 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 small | advmod |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 small | advmod |
| 6 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 show | mark |
| 8 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 small | advcl |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 show | compound:prt |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 screen | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 screen | det |
| 12 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 screen | amod |
| 13 | screen | screen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 show | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Black holes | far, small property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | show up | to-infinitive | Black holes not said here | a big screen | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on screen=Location |
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