Test 5 · ★★ · Asteroids and the asteroid belt
Lots of shooting stars tonight! What are they really?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: stars · What happens: be
This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 9 «Asteroids and the asteroid belt» 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: Lots of shooting stars tonight!
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 stars | case |
| 3 | shooting | shooting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stars | compound |
| 4 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Lots | nmod |
| 5 | tonight | tonight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Lots | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lots | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: What are they really?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 What | nsubj |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 1 What | advmod |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | stars = star | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Aeroplanes and satellites with bright flashing lights
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aeroplanes | aeroplane | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 satellites | cc |
| 3 | satellites | satellite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Aeroplanes | conj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 lights | case |
| 5 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lights | amod |
| 6 | flashing | flashing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lights | compound |
| 7 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Aeroplanes | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Little pieces of the Moon breaking off and falling to us
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 pieces | amod |
| 2 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 breaking | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Moon | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Moon | det |
| 5 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 pieces | nmod |
| 6 | breaking | break | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 breaking | compound:prt |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 falling | cc |
| 9 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 breaking | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 us | case |
| 11 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 falling | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break off | gerund | Little pieces of the Moon | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | fall | gerund | Little pieces of the Moon not said here | us | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to we=Pivot |
Option 3
Real stars falling right out of the sky and going out
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 stars | amod |
| 2 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 falling | nsubj |
| 3 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | right | right | ADV | _ | 8 sky | advmod |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 sky | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 sky | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sky | det |
| 8 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 falling | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 going | cc |
| 10 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 falling | conj |
| 11 | out | out | ADV | _ | 10 going | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | gerund | Real stars | the sky | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme out sky=Location | ||||
| 2 | go out | gerund | Real stars not said here | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Meteors, small space rocks burning up in our air
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Meteors | meteor | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 rocks | punct |
| 3 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 rocks | amod |
| 4 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rocks | compound |
| 5 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Meteors | conj |
| 6 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 rocks | acl |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 burning | compound:prt |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 air | case |
| 9 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 air | nmod:poss |
| 10 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 burning | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn up | gerund | small space rocks not said here | our air | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Location |
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