Test 9 · Telescopes and light
James Webb works far from Earth, about 1.5 million km away. Which is closest to that?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: James · What happens: work, be
This is test 9 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: James Webb works far from Earth, about 1.5 million km away.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | James | James | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 works | nsubj |
| 2 | Webb | Webb | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 James | flat |
| 3 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 works | advmod |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 Earth | case |
| 6 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 far | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 km | punct |
| 8 | about | about | ADV | _ | 10 million | advmod |
| 9 | 1.5 | 1.5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 million | compound |
| 10 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 km | nummod |
| 11 | km | km | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 away | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 works | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 works | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | present | James | away, far property | vn employment-95.3 «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.
Sentence 2: Which is closest to that?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 closest | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 closest | cop |
| 3 | closest | close | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 that | case |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 closest | obl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 closest | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | to that; close property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
About the height of a plane
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADP | _ | 3 height | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 height | det |
| 3 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 plane | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 plane | det |
| 6 | plane | plane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 height | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
About four times the distance to the Moon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 four | advmod |
| 2 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 times | nummod |
| 3 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 distance | det |
| 5 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 times | nmod:unmarked |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Moon | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Moon | det |
| 8 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 distance | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
About the distance to the Sun
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADP | _ | 3 distance | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 distance | det |
| 3 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Sun | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Sun | det |
| 6 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 distance | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
About the distance to Mars at its farthest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADP | _ | 3 distance | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 distance | det |
| 3 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 farthest | obl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Mars | case |
| 5 | Mars | Mars | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 distance | nmod |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 farthest | case |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 farthest | nmod:poss |
| 8 | farthest | far | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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