Test 7 · The Moon

Why does a dancer who keeps facing her partner explain the Moon's face?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dancer · What happens: do, keep, face, explain · To what, where: dancer, partner, face

This is test 7 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	2 does	advmod
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 explain	advcl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 dancer	det
4	dancer	dancer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 keeps	nsubj
6	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dancer	acl:relcl
7	facing	face	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 keeps	xcomp
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 partner	nmod:poss
9	partner	partner	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 facing	obj
10	explain	explain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Moon	det
12	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 face	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 Moon	case
14	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 explain	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 explain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	present		a dancer	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dancer=Eventuality
2	keep	present	a dancer		tree rules
3	face	gerund	a dancer not said here	her partner	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme partner=Destination
4	explain speech: assert	present		the Moon's face	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=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

The Moon dances round the Sun

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	3 dances	nsubj
3	dances	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	round	round	ADP	_	6 Sun	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Sun	det
6	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dances	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance	present	the Moon					round the Sun	vn waltz-51.5 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The Moon moves its face to watch us

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	3 moves	nsubj
3	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 face	nmod:poss
5	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 moves	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 watch	mark
7	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 moves	advcl
8	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 watch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	present	the Moon	Moon's face					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent face=Theme
2	watch	to-infinitive	the Moon not said here	us					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The Moon turns once each orbit, so the same side always faces us

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	3 turns	nsubj
3	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 turns	advmod
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	6 orbit	det
6	orbit	orbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turns	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 faces	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	13 faces	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 side	det
10	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 side	amod
11	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 faces	nsubj
12	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	13 faces	advmod
13	faces	face	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 turns	conj
14	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 faces	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	the Moon	each orbit				once property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent orbit=Theme
2	face	present	the same side		us			always property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme we=Destination

Option 4

The Moon stops spinning when it faces us

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	3 stops	nsubj
3	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	spinning	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stops	xcomp
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 faces	advmod
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 faces	nsubj
7	faces	face	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 spinning	advcl
8	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 faces	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	stop	present	the Moon		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	spin	gerund	the Moon not said here		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	face	present	Moon	us	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme we=Destination

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