Test 5 · The history of space exploration
A cartoon shows Laika coming home a hero and wagging her tail. What is wrong?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cartoon · What happens: show, come, wag, be · To what, where: Laika, hero, tail
This is test 5 of lesson 29 «The history of space exploration» 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: A cartoon shows Laika coming home a hero and wagging her tail.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cartoon | det |
| 2 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | nsubj |
| 3 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Laika | Laika | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | obj |
| 5 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 shows | xcomp |
| 6 | home | home | ADV | _ | 5 coming | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 hero | det |
| 8 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 coming | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 wagging | cc |
| 10 | wagging | wag | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 coming | conj |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 tail | nmod:poss |
| 12 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wagging | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | a cartoon | Laika | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent laika=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | come | gerund | a cartoon not said here | a hero | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | wag | gerund | a cartoon not said here | cartoon's tail | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=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 is wrong?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 wrong | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrong | cop |
| 3 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | wrong property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Laika was really a cat called Félicette, not a dog at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Laika | Laika | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 cat | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cat | cop |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 cat | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cat | det |
| 5 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 cat | acl |
| 7 | Félicette | Félicette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 called | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 dog | punct |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 dog | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 dog | det |
| 11 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cat | conj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 all | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 dog | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Laika | a cat and a dog at all | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | a cat and a dog at all not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Laika never went into space
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Laika | Laika | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 went | advmod |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 space | case |
| 5 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go | past | Laika | space | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into space=Initial_Location |
Option 3
Laika lived on the Moon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Laika | Laika | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 lived | nsubj |
| 2 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 Moon | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Moon | det |
| 5 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 lived | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | Laika | the Moon | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on moon=Location |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Laika died in space within hours; there was no way back
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Laika | Laika | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 died | nsubj |
| 2 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 space | case |
| 4 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 died | obl |
| 5 | within | within | ADP | _ | 6 hours | case |
| 6 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 died | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 was | punct |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 was | expl |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 way | cop |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 way | det |
| 11 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 died | obl |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 way | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | Laika | hour | in space | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in space=Attribute | |||
| 2 | is a | past | no way | tree rules |
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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