Test 1 · ★★ · Phases, eclipses and tides

teacher drew the phases as the Earth's shadow creeping over the Moon. is that right??

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: teacher, that, Earth · What happens: draw, creep, be, shadow · To what, where: phases, Moon

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 7 «Phases, eclipses and tides» 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	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drew	nsubj
2	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 phases	det
4	phases	phase	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 drew	obj
5	as	as	ADP	_	9 shadow	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Earth	det
7	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 shadow	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Earth	case
9	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drew	obl
10	creeping	creep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 right	csubj
11	over	over	ADP	_	13 Moon	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Moon	det
13	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 creeping	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 creeping	punct
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 right	cop
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 right	nsubj
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 drew	parataxis
18	??	??	PUNCT	_	2 drew	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	draw	past	teacher	the phases		as the Earth's shadow	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent phase=Result as shadow=Attribute
2	creep	gerund			the Moon		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over moon=Trajectory
3	is	present	that			right property	tree rules
4	shadow		the Earth				nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=agent

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 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, but only for the full Moon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 Moon	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 Moon	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	8 Moon	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 Moon	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Moon	det
7	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Moon	amod
8	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, phases come from seeing more or less of the Moon's sunlit half

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 come	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
3	phases	phase	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	nsubj
4	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	SCONJ	_	6 seeing	mark
6	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 come	advcl
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 seeing	obj
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 less	cc
9	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 more	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	15 half	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Moon	det
12	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 half	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 Moon	case
14	sunlit	sunlit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 half	amod
15	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	9 less	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	phases						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	gerund	phases not said here	more					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus

Option 3

No, phases are caused by clouds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 caused	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	phases	phase	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 caused	nsubj:pass
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 caused	aux:pass
5	caused	cause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 clouds	case
7	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 caused	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	present · passive	clouds	phases					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient

Option 4

Yes, that is exactly how phases work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 work	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 work	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 how	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 how	cop
5	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	6 how	advmod
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 work	advmod
7	phases	phase	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 work	nsubj
8	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that					exactly, how property	tree rules
2	work	present	phases						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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