Test 7 · ★★ · Black holes
Why could the Sun not simply turn into a black hole one day?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sun · What happens: not turn · To what, where: black hole
This is test 7 · ★★ 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 | 7 turn | advmod |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 turn | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Sun | det |
| 4 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 turn | nsubj |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 turn | advmod |
| 6 | simply | simply | ADV | _ | 7 turn | advmod |
| 7 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 hole | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 hole | det |
| 10 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hole | amod |
| 11 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 turn | obl |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 day | nummod |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 turn | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 turn | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not turn | could | the Sun | a black hole | day | simply property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into hole=Trajectory |
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 · ✓ the right answer
It is not heavy enough to collapse into one
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 heavy | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 heavy | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 heavy | advmod |
| 4 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 4 heavy | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 collapse | mark |
| 7 | collapse | collapse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 heavy | advcl |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 one | case |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 collapse | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | It | enough, heavy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | collapse | to-infinitive | into one | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
It is made of the wrong kind of gas
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 | 3 made | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | aux:pass |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 kind | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 kind | det |
| 6 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 kind | amod |
| 7 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 gas | case |
| 9 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kind | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · passive | It | of the wrong kind of gas | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
Option 3
It is too far from the galaxy's centre
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 | 9 centre | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 centre | cop |
| 3 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 far | advmod |
| 4 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 centre | advmod |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 centre | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 galaxy | det |
| 7 | galaxy | galaxy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 centre | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 galaxy | case |
| 9 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | the galaxy's centre | far property | tree rules |
Option 4
It burns too slowly
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 burns | nsubj |
| 2 | burns | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | too | too | ADV | _ | 2 burns | advmod |
| 4 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 2 burns | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | present | It | slowly property | vn light_emission-43.1 «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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