Test 8 · Telescopes and light
Galileo saw that Venus has phases like the Moon. What does that tell us he used?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Galileo, Venus, that · What happens: see, have, tell, use · To what, where: phases, us · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 8 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: Galileo saw that Venus has phases like the Moon.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Galileo | Galileo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 has | mark |
| 4 | Venus | Venus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 has | nsubj |
| 5 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | ccomp |
| 6 | phases | phase | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 has | obj |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 Moon | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Moon | det |
| 9 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 phases | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Galileo | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | have | present | Venus | phases | like the Moon | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phase=Patient |
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: What does that tell us he used?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 tell | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | aux |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 tell | nsubj |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | iobj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 used | nsubj |
| 7 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 tell | ccomp |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present · do-support | that | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | use | participle | Venus | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1
A space telescope
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 telescope | det |
| 2 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 telescope | compound |
| 3 | telescope | telescope | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A radio dish
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 dish | det |
| 2 | radio | radio | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dish | compound |
| 3 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A small homemade telescope
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 telescope | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 telescope | amod |
| 3 | homemade | homemade | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 telescope | amod |
| 4 | telescope | telescope | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The naked eye only
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 eye | det |
| 2 | naked | naked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 eye | amod |
| 3 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 eye | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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