Test 10 · ★ · Venus

What could Venus teach us about the Earth?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Venus · What happens: teach · To what, where: us

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 4 «Venus» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 teach	obj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 teach	aux
3	Venus	Venus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 teach	nsubj
4	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 teach	obj
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 Earth	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Earth	det
8	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 teach	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 teach	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other	could	Venus		us			about the Earth	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent what=Recipient we=Topic

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

That all planets spin backwards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 all	nsubj
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 planets	det
3	planets	planet	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 spin	nsubj
4	spin	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	4 spin	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spin	present	all planets					backwards property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

How a twin-sized planet could lose its oceans and overheat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 lose	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 planet	det
3	twin	twin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sized	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 twin	punct
5	sized	size	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 planet	amod
6	planet	planet	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lose	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 lose	aux
8	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 oceans	nmod:poss
10	oceans	ocean	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lose	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 overheat	cc
12	overheat	overheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 oceans	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	size	participle							tree rules
2	lose	could	a sized planet	planet's oceans and overheat					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ocean=Eventuality

Option 3

That planets cannot have water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 planets	det
2	planets	planet	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 have	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 have	advmod
5	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not have	can	that planets	water					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient

Option 4

That the Earth is getting colder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 Earth	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Earth	det
3	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 getting	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 getting	aux
5	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	colder	cold	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 getting	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present · progressive	the Earth					cold property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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