Exam question 2 · Phases, eclipses and tides
Ascertain the phase of the Moon at which a solar eclipse may occur.
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, solar eclipse · What happens: ascertain, occur · To what, where: phase
This is exam question 2 of lesson 7 «Phases, eclipses and tides» of the space course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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 | Ascertain | ascertain | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 phase | det |
| 3 | phase | phase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ascertain | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Moon | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Moon | det |
| 6 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 phase | nmod |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 which | case |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 occur | obl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 eclipse | det |
| 10 | solar | solar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 eclipse | amod |
| 11 | eclipse | eclipse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 occur | nsubj |
| 12 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 occur | aux |
| 13 | occur | occur | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 phase | acl:relcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ascertain | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ascertain | imperative | you not said here | the phase of the Moon | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phase=Topic | ||||
| 2 | occur | may | a solar eclipse | the phase of the Moon | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at which=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
Last quarter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 quarter | amod |
| 2 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
First quarter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 2 quarter | advmod |
| 2 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
New Moon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New | New | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Moon | amod |
| 2 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Full Moon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Moon | amod |
| 2 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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