Test 2 · Telescopes and light
Two telescopes are the same except one mirror is much wider. Which shows fainter stars?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Two telescopes · What happens: be, show · To what, where: fainter stars
This is test 2 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
Sentence 1: Two telescopes are the same except one mirror is much wider.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 telescopes | nummod |
| 2 | telescopes | telescope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 same | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 same | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 same | det |
| 5 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | except | except | ADP | _ | 8 mirror | case |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 mirror | nummod |
| 8 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 same | obl |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 wider | cop |
| 10 | much | much | ADV | _ | 11 wider | advmod |
| 11 | wider | wide | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 same | parataxis |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 same | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Two telescopes | except one mirror; same property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | wide 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.
Sentence 2: Which shows fainter stars?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 shows | nsubj |
| 2 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | fainter | faint | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 stars | amod |
| 4 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 shows | obj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 shows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | fainter stars | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent star=Recipient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The one with the wider mirror
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 mirror | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 mirror | det |
| 5 | wider | wide | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 mirror | amod |
| 6 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 one | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The one with the narrower mirror
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 mirror | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 mirror | det |
| 5 | narrower | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 mirror | amod |
| 6 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 one | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Both exactly the same
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Both | both | CCONJ | _ | 4 same | cc:preconj |
| 2 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 4 same | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 same | det |
| 4 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Neither shows faint stars
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 shows | nsubj |
| 2 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | faint | faint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stars | amod |
| 4 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 shows | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | Neither | faint stars | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent star=Recipient |
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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