Test 12 · ★★ · Phases, eclipses and tides
mum: "tide's out, the Moon's not even up, so how's it the Moon's doing??" Best answer?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum, tide · What happens: be, do
This is test 12 · ★★ 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
Sentence 1: mum: "tide's out, the Moon's not even up, so how's it the Moon's doing??"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 out | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 out | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 out | punct |
| 4 | tide | tide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 out | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 out | cop |
| 6 | out | out | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 up | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Moon | det |
| 9 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 up | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Moon | case |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 up | advmod |
| 12 | even | even | ADV | _ | 13 up | advmod |
| 13 | up | up | ADV | _ | 6 out | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 doing | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 doing | advmod |
| 16 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 doing | advmod |
| 17 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 doing | aux |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 doing | nsubj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Moon | det |
| 20 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 doing | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 Moon | case |
| 22 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 out | parataxis |
| 23 | ?? | ?? | PUNCT | _ | 22 doing | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 out | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | mum | out property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do in a quote | present · progressive | tide | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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.
Sentence 2: Best answer?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 answer | amod |
| 2 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 answer | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
It is the Sun's heat drawing water away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 heat | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 heat | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Sun | det |
| 4 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 heat | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Sun | case |
| 6 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | drawing | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 heat | acl |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drawing | obj |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 drawing | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | the Sun's heat | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | draw away | gerund | the Sun's heat not said here | water | away property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme |
Option 2
Then it must be the wind doing it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 wind | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 wind | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 wind | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 wind | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wind | det |
| 6 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 wind | acl |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 doing | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | must | it | the wind | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | do | gerund | the wind not said here | wind | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
Option 3
Tides stop when the Moon has set
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tides | tide | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 stop | nsubj |
| 2 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 set | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Moon | det |
| 5 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 set | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 set | aux |
| 7 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 stop | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | present | Tides | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | set | present · perfect · passive | the Moon | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The Moon's pull works all the time, whether or not you can see it
The tree, 15 words
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 pull | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Moon | case |
| 4 | pull | pull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 works | nsubj |
| 5 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 time | det:predet |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 time | det |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 works | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 see | punct |
| 10 | whether | whether | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 15 see | mark |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 whether | fixed |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 whether | fixed |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 see | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 see | aux |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 works | parataxis |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 see | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | present | the Moon's pull | time | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | see | can | you | pull | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | pull | the Moon | nom pull «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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