Test 6 · The Earth as a planet
A cartoon shows the inside of the Earth as hollow with a little sun in the middle. What is really there?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cartoon · What happens: show, be · To what, where: inside
This is test 6 of lesson 5 «The Earth as a planet» 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 the inside of the Earth as hollow with a little sun in the middle.
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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 inside | det |
| 5 | inside | inside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Earth | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Earth | det |
| 8 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 inside | nmod |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 hollow | case |
| 10 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 shows | parataxis |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 sun | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 sun | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sun | amod |
| 14 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hollow | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 middle | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 middle | det |
| 17 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sun | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | a cartoon | the inside of the Earth | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent inside=Recipient |
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 really there?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 there | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 there | cop |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 4 there | advmod |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 there | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | there property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Empty space with dinosaurs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 space | amod |
| 2 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 dinosaurs | case |
| 4 | dinosaurs | dinosaur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 space | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
An ocean of water
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 ocean | det |
| 2 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 water | case |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ocean | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A huge ball of ice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 ball | det |
| 2 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ball | amod |
| 3 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 ice | case |
| 5 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ball | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
A solid iron inner core inside a liquid iron outer core
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 core | det |
| 2 | solid | solid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 core | amod |
| 3 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 core | compound |
| 4 | inner | inner | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 core | amod |
| 5 | core | core | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 11 core | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 core | det |
| 8 | liquid | liquid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 core | amod |
| 9 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 core | compound |
| 10 | outer | outer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 core | amod |
| 11 | core | core | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 core | nmod |
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.
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