Test 5 · ★ · Exoplanets and the search for life
In Star Wars, Luke watches two suns set on Tatooine. Could a real planet have two suns?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Luke, real planet · What happens: watch, set, have · To what, where: two suns, Star Wars, Tatooine
This is test 5 · ★ 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: In Star Wars, Luke watches two suns set on Tatooine.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 Wars | case |
| 2 | Star | Star | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Wars | compound |
| 3 | Wars | War | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 watches | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Wars | punct |
| 5 | Luke | Luke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 watches | nsubj |
| 6 | watches | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 suns | nummod |
| 8 | suns | sun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 watches | obj |
| 9 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 suns | acl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 Tatooine | case |
| 11 | Tatooine | Tatooine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 set | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 watches | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | present | Luke | two suns | Star Wars | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sun=Theme | |||
| 2 | set | participle | two suns not said here | Tatooine | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on tatooine=Destination |
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: Could a real planet have two suns?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 planet | aux |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 planet | det |
| 3 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 planet | amod |
| 4 | planet | planet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 suns | nummod |
| 7 | suns | sun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 have | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a real planet | two suns | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sun=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
No, planets can only orbit one star
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 orbit | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | planets | planet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 orbit | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 orbit | aux |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 orbit | advmod |
| 6 | orbit | orbit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 star | nummod |
| 8 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 orbit | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | orbit | can | planets | one star | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Yes, like Kepler-16b found in 2011
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 16b | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 16b | punct |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 16b | case |
| 4 | Kepler | kepler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 16b | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Kepler | punct |
| 6 | 16b | 16b | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 16b | acl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 2011 | case |
| 9 | 2011 | 2011 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 found | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | participle | Kepler 16b not said here | 2011 | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Only in our own solar system
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 6 system | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 system | case |
| 3 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 system | nmod:poss |
| 4 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 system | amod |
| 5 | solar | solar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 system | amod |
| 6 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
No, two suns would always crash
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 crash | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 suns | nummod |
| 4 | suns | sun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 crash | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 crash | aux |
| 6 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 7 crash | advmod |
| 7 | crash | crash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crash | would | two suns | always property | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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