Test 11 · ★ · Exoplanets and the search for life
TESS has searched almost the whole sky since 2018. What is it looking for?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: TESS, sky · What happens: search, look · To what, where: whole sky
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 26 «Exoplanets and the search for life» 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: TESS has searched almost the whole sky since 2018.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | TESS | TESS | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 searched | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 searched | aux |
| 3 | searched | search | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 7 sky | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sky | det |
| 6 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sky | amod |
| 7 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 searched | obj |
| 8 | since | since | ADP | _ | 9 2018 | case |
| 9 | 2018 | 2018 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 searched | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 searched | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | search | present · perfect | TESS | the whole sky | since 2018 | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent sky=Location |
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 it looking for?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 looking | obl |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 looking | aux |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 looking | nsubj |
| 4 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 looking | obl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 looking | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present · progressive | sky | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Exoplanets passing in front of their stars
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Exoplanets | exoplanet | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | passing | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Exoplanets | acl |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 front | case |
| 4 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 passing | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 stars | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 stars | nmod:poss |
| 7 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 front | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | gerund | Exoplanets not said here | front of Exoplanets's stars | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in front=Location |
Option 2
Space junk around Earth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 junk | compound |
| 2 | junk | junk | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | around | around | ADP | _ | 4 Earth | case |
| 4 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 junk | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Comets about to hit Earth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Comets | comet | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | about | about | ADP | _ | 4 hit | case |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 hit | mark |
| 4 | hit | hit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Comets | acl:relcl |
| 5 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 hit | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit | to-infinitive | Earth | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme earth=Co-Theme |
Option 4
Black holes in the galaxy's centre
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 | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 centre | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 galaxy | det |
| 5 | galaxy | galaxy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 centre | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 galaxy | case |
| 7 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 holes | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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