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Test 2 · The Moon

In a cartoon, astronauts on the Moon hear a loud bang when a rock falls. What is wrong?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: astronauts, rock · What happens: hear, fall, be · To what, where: loud bang, cartoon

This is test 2 of lesson 6 «The Moon» 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: In a cartoon, astronauts on the Moon hear a loud bang when a rock falls.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hear	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cartoon	punct
5	astronauts	astronaut	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hear	nsubj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 Moon	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Moon	det
8	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 astronauts	nmod
9	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bang	det
11	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bang	amod
12	bang	bang	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hear	obj
13	when	when	SCONJ	_	16 falls	mark
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 rock	det
15	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 falls	nsubj
16	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 hear	advcl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 hear	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	present	astronauts on the Moon	a loud bang		a cartoon			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer bang=Stimulus
2	fall	present	a rock						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Nothing, sound is louder on the Moon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 sound	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 louder	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 louder	cop
5	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 Moon	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Moon	det
8	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 louder	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nothing sound			the Moon		loud property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Rocks cannot fall on the Moon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fall	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fall	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 fall	advmod
4	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 Moon	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Moon	det
7	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 fall	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not fall	can	Rocks			the Moon			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on moon=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

With almost no air there is no sound

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	With	with	ADP	_	4 air	case
2	almost	almost	ADV	_	4 air	advmod
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 air	det
4	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 is	obl
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 is	expl
6	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 sound	det
8	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 is	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	no sound			there		with no air	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

They would hear it only at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hear	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	aux
3	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hear	obj
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 night	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 night	case
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hear	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	would	They	it			night		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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