Test 5 · The Moon

Why can astronauts' footprints stay on the Moon for millions of years?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: footprints · What happens: stay · To what, where: Moon

This is test 5 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 stay	advmod
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 footprints	aux
3	astronauts	astronaut	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 footprints	nmod:poss
4	'	's	PART	_	3 astronauts	case
5	footprints	footprint	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stay	nsubj
6	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 Moon	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Moon	det
9	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 stay	obl
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 millions	case
11	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stay	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 years	case
13	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 millions	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 stay	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	present	astronauts's footprints			the Moon		for millions of years	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on moon=Location

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

The Moon's dust is glued down hard by the cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Moon	det
2	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 dust	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Moon	case
4	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 glued	nsubj:pass
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 glued	aux:pass
6	glued	glue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	down	down	ADP	_	6 glued	compound:prt
8	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 glued	advmod
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 cold	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cold	det
11	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 glued	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glue down	present · passive	the cold	the Moon's dust				hard property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The astronauts painted them on to make them last

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 astronauts	det
2	astronauts	astronaut	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 painted	nsubj
3	painted	paint	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 painted	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	3 painted	compound:prt
6	to	to	PART	_	7 make	mark
7	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 painted	advcl
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 make	obj
9	last	last	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	paint on	past	the astronauts	them = they	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Destination
2	make	to-infinitive	the astronauts not said here	astronauts = astronaut	tree rules
3	last	infinitive	astronauts = astronaut not said here		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

There is no wind or rain to wipe them away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 wind	det
4	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 rain	cc
6	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wind	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 wipe	mark
8	wipe	wipe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wind	acl
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 wipe	obj
10	away	away	ADV	_	8 wipe	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	does	present	no wind or rain			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wipe away	to-infinitive	no wind or rain not said here	wind				away property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=Source

Option 4

The Moon's ground is frozen hard like concrete

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Moon	det
2	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 ground	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Moon	case
4	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 frozen	nsubj:pass
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 frozen	aux:pass
6	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 frozen	advmod
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 concrete	case
9	concrete	concrete	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 frozen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	present · passive		the Moon's ground				like concrete; hard property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result

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