Test 7 · ★★★ · Olympiad: stars, light and space history ★★★
★★★ Mum: "The Moon's moving off by 3.8 centimetres a year, nothing really." About how far in 1,000 years?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mum · What happens: move off
This is test 7 · ★★★ of lesson 32 «Olympiad: stars, light and space history ★★★» 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: ★★★ Mum: "The Moon's moving off by 3.8 centimetres a year, nothing really."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 4 Mum | case |
| 4 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | nmod |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 moving | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 moving | punct |
| 7 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Moon | det |
| 8 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 moving | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Moon | case |
| 10 | moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 Mum | acl:relcl |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 moving | compound:prt |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 centimetres | case |
| 13 | 3.8 | 3.8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 centimetres | nummod |
| 14 | centimetres | centimetre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 moving | obl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 year | det |
| 16 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 centimetres | nmod:unmarked |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 nothing | punct |
| 18 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 10 moving | parataxis |
| 19 | really | really | ADV | _ | 18 nothing | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 nothing | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 nothing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move off in a quote | gerund | Mum not said here | by 3.8 centimetres a year | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme by centimetre=Trajectory |
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: About how far in 1,000 years?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | SCONJ | _ | 3 far | mark |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 far | advmod |
| 3 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADV | _ | 3 far | advmod |
| 5 | 1,000 | 1000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 years | nummod |
| 6 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 far | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 far | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
About 3.8 metres
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 3.8 | advmod |
| 2 | 3.8 | 3.8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 metres | nummod |
| 3 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
About 38 metres
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 38 | advmod |
| 2 | 38 | 38 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 metres | nummod |
| 3 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
About 3.8 kilometres
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 3.8 | advmod |
| 2 | 3.8 | 3.8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 kilometres | nummod |
| 3 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
About 380 metres
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 380 | advmod |
| 2 | 380 | 380 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 metres | nummod |
| 3 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/32-olympiad-stars-light-and-space-history/t7/