Test 11 · Telescopes and light

If Earth had no air at all, what could ground telescopes do better?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Earth, ground telescopes · What happens: have, do · To what, where: air, all

This is test 11 of lesson 27 «Telescopes and light» 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 had	mark
2	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 air	det
5	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 had	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 what	punct
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 had	parataxis
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 telescopes	aux
11	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 telescopes	compound
12	telescopes	telescope	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 do	nsubj
13	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 what	acl:relcl
14	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 do	xcomp
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Earth	no air		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Patient
2	do	present	ground telescopes					good property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Hear sounds from stars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hear	hear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sounds	amod
2	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 stars	case
4	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sounds	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Nothing would change at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 change	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 change	aux
3	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 change	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	Nothing			all			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

See through the Sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	See	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	through	through	ADP	_	4 Sun	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Sun	det
4	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 See	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	imperative	you not said here			the Sun			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

See sharper and catch X-rays from space

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	See	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	sharper	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 See	xcomp
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 catch	cc
4	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 See	conj
5	X	x	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rays	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 X	punct
7	rays	ray	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 catch	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 space	case
9	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 catch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	imperative	you not said here					sharp property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	catch	present	you not said here	X rays		space			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent ray=Theme from space=Source

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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