Test 8 · ★ · Exoplanets and the search for life

Which is true about SETI?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 SETI	case
5	SETI	SETI	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 true	obl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about SETI; true property	tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

It has never found a confirmed alien signal

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 found	nsubj:pass
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 found	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 found	advmod
4	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 signal	det
6	confirmed	confirm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 signal	amod
7	alien	alien	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 signal	amod
8	signal	signal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not find	present · perfect · passive		It					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme signal=Attribute
2	confirm	participle							vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot

Option 2

It found a signal in 1995 that was proved alien

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 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 signal	det
4	signal	signal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 1995	case
6	1995	1995	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 found	obl
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 proved	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 proved	aux:pass
9	proved	prove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 1995	acl:relcl
10	alien	alien	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 proved	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	It	a signal		1995			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent signal=Topic
2	prove	past · passive						alien property	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3

It talks with aliens every week

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 talks	nsubj
2	talks	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 aliens	case
4	aliens	alien	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 talks	obl
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 week	det
6	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 talks	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	present	It				week	with aliens	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with alien=Co-Agent

Option 4

It looks for life with microscopes

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 looks	nsubj
2	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 life	case
4	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looks	obl
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 microscopes	case
6	microscopes	microscope	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 looks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	It					for life; with microscopes	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for 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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