Test 3 · ★ · Mars
Ella says Everest is the tallest mountain in the Solar System. What is the truth?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ella, Everest, truth · What happens: say, be · To what, where: tallest mountain, Solar System · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 8 «Mars» 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: Ella says Everest is the tallest mountain in the Solar System.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ella | Ella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Everest | Everest | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 mountain | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 mountain | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mountain | det |
| 6 | tallest | tall | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 mountain | amod |
| 7 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 says | ccomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 System | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 System | det |
| 10 | Solar | Solar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 System | compound |
| 11 | System | System | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 mountain | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Ella | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | Everest | the tallest mountain | the Solar System | 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 is the truth?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 truth | det |
| 4 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the truth | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The Moon's mountains are the tallest
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 mountains | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Moon | case |
| 4 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 tallest | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 tallest | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tallest | det |
| 7 | tallest | tall | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the Moon's mountains | tall property | tree rules |
Option 2
Jupiter has the tallest mountain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jupiter | Jupiter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mountain | det |
| 4 | tallest | tall | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 mountain | amod |
| 5 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 has | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Jupiter | the tallest mountain | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mountain=Patient |
Option 3
She is right, Everest is the tallest anywhere
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 tallest | punct |
| 5 | Everest | Everest | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 tallest | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 tallest | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tallest | det |
| 8 | tallest | tall | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 right | parataxis |
| 9 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 8 tallest | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | She | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Everest | anywhere, tall property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Olympus Mons on Mars is about two and a half times taller
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Olympus | Olympus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Mons | compound |
| 2 | Mons | Mons | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 two | nsubj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 Mars | case |
| 4 | Mars | Mars | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Mons | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 two | cop |
| 6 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 two | advmod |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 taller | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 half | det |
| 10 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 11 times | compound |
| 11 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 taller | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | taller | tall | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 two | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Olympus Mons on Mars | two | about property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | Olympus Mons on Mars not said here | time | tree rules |
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