Test 5 · ★★ · Black holes

Why can't a telescope take a normal photo of the black hole itself?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: telescope · What happens: not take · To what, where: normal photo

This is test 5 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 take	advmod
2	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 take	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 take	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 telescope	det
5	telescope	telescope	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	nsubj
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 photo	det
8	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 photo	amod
9	photo	photo	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 hole	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hole	det
12	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 hole	amod
13	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 photo	nmod
14	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	13 hole	nmod:unmarked
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not take	can	a telescope	a normal photo of the black hole telescope					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent photo=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.

The options

Option 1

It is always hidden behind the Sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hidden	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hidden	aux:pass
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 hidden	advmod
4	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	behind	behind	ADP	_	7 Sun	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Sun	det
7	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 hidden	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	present · passive		It		the Sun		always property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient behind sun=Location

Option 2

It moves too fast for a camera

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 moves	nsubj
2	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 fast	advmod
4	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 moves	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 camera	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 camera	det
7	camera	camera	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 moves	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	present	It					for a camera; fast property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No light escapes from inside it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 light	det
2	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 escapes	nsubj
3	escapes	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 it	case
5	inside	inside	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 escapes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	escape	present	no light			it			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from it=Initial_Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

It is too hot to photograph

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hot	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hot	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 hot	advmod
4	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 photograph	mark
6	photograph	photograph	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hot	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					hot property	tree rules
2	photograph	to-infinitive							vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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