Test 6 · ★ · Exoplanets and the search for life
Why do scientists look under the ice of Europa and Enceladus?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: scientists · What happens: look
This is test 6 · ★ 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 look | advmod |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 look | aux |
| 3 | scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 look | nsubj |
| 4 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | under | under | ADP | _ | 7 ice | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ice | det |
| 7 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 look | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Europa | case |
| 9 | Europa | Europa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 ice | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Enceladus | cc |
| 11 | Enceladus | Enceladus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Europa | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present · do-support | scientists | under the ice of Europa and Enceladus | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent under ice=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 · ← Mova's choice
They are made of pure gold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur 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 | _ | 6 gold | case |
| 5 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 gold | amod |
| 6 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · passive | They | of pure gold | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
Option 2
The ice is full of fossils
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 ice | det |
| 2 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 full | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 full | cop |
| 4 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 fossils | case |
| 6 | fossils | fossil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 full | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the ice | of fossils; full property | tree rules |
Option 3
They are the hottest moons
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 moons | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 moons | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 moons | det |
| 4 | hottest | hot | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 moons | amod |
| 5 | moons | moon | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | They | the hottest moons | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Hidden oceans there might hold life
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hidden | hidden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 oceans | amod |
| 2 | oceans | ocean | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hold | nsubj |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 oceans | advmod |
| 4 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 hold | aux |
| 5 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hold | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | might | Hidden oceans | life | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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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