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Test 3 · ★★ · Phases, eclipses and tides

The Moon looked like a thin smile lit on the right last night in Manchester. What will it do over the next week?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Moon · What happens: look, lit, do · To what, where: thin smile

This is test 3 · ★★ 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: The Moon looked like a thin smile lit on the right last night in Manchester.

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 looked	nsubj
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	7 smile	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 smile	det
6	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 smile	amod
7	smile	smile	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looked	obl
8	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 smile	acl
9	on	on	ADP	_	13 night	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 night	det
11	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 night	amod
12	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 night	amod
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lit	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 Manchester	case
15	Manchester	Manchester	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 night	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 looked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	the Moon					like a thin smile	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	lit	participle		a thin smile not said here			night		tree rules

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: What will it do over the next week?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	over	over	ADP	_	8 week	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 week	det
7	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 week	amod
8	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 do	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	future	Moon				week		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

Shrink, because it is waning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shrink	shrink	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 waning	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 waning	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 waning	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 waning	aux
6	waning	wane	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Shrink	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shrink	imperative	you not said here						vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	wane	present · progressive	it						vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Disappear and never come back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Disappear	disappear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 come	cc
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 come	advmod
4	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Disappear	conj
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	disappear	imperative	you not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not come back	infinitive	you not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Stay the same for a month

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 same	det
3	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Stay	xcomp
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 month	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 month	det
6	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	imperative	you not said here				month	same property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Grow, because it is waxing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 waxing	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 waxing	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 waxing	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 waxing	aux
6	waxing	wax	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Grow	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	imperative	you not said here						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wax	present · progressive	it						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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