Test 8 · The history of space exploration

If you met Tim Peake, what could you ask him about?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: meet, ask · To what, where: Tim

This is test 8 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 met	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 met	nsubj
3	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 ask	advcl
4	Tim	Tim	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 met	obj
5	Peake	Peake	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Tim	flat
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 met	punct
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 ask	obj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 ask	aux
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 ask	nsubj
10	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 ask	obj
12	about	about	ADV	_	10 ask	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 ask	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet a condition, not said to happen	past	you	Tim					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tim=Co-Agent
2	ask speech: ask	could	you		Tim			about 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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

His stay on the space station in 2015-2016

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 stay	nmod:poss
2	stay	stay	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 station	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 station	det
5	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 station	compound
6	station	station	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stay	nmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 2015-2016	case
8	2015-2016	2015-2016	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 station	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay		His = he			the space station in 2015-2016			nom stay «act intransitive»: poss=agent on=place

Option 2

His flight past Neptune

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 flight	nmod:poss
2	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	past	past	ADP	_	4 Neptune	case
4	Neptune	Neptune	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 flight	nmod

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

Option 3

His time on Mars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 time	nmod:poss
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 Mars	case
4	Mars	Mars	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 time	nmod

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

Option 4

His walk on the Moon with Neil Armstrong in 1969

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 walk	nmod:poss
2	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	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 walk	nmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 Armstrong	case
7	Neil	Neil	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Armstrong	compound
8	Armstrong	Armstrong	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 walk	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 1969	case
10	1969	1969	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 walk	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk		His = he			the Moon		with Neil Armstrong	nom walk «act transitive»: poss=agent on=place with=obl

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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