Test 5 · ★★ · Satellites and GPS

«that bright dot moving fast across the sky, is it a UFO» What is the likely answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bright dot, UFO · What happens: move, be · To what, where: sky, UFO, likely answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 38 «Satellites and GPS» of the technology 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	14 UFO	punct
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 dot	det
3	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dot	amod
4	dot	dot	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 UFO	nsubj
5	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 dot	acl
6	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 moving	advmod
7	across	across	ADP	_	9 sky	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sky	det
9	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 moving	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dot	punct
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 UFO	cop
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 UFO	nsubj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 UFO	det
14	UFO	ufo	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 UFO	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 answer	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 answer	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 answer	det
19	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 answer	amod
20	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 UFO	parataxis
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 UFO	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	move in a quote	gerund	that bright dot not said here		the sky	fast property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme across sky=Trajectory
2	is a in a quote	present	that bright dot	a UFO			tree rules
3	be speech: assert	present	a UFO	the likely answer			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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It is just a star, as stars always move that fast

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	5 star	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 star	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	5 star	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 star	det
5	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 move	punct
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 move	mark
8	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 move	nsubj
9	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	10 move	advmod
10	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 star	conj
11	that	that	ADV	_	12 fast	advmod
12	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 move	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a star					tree rules
2	move	present	stars					always, fast property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It is a satellite falling to Earth

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	4 satellite	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 satellite	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 satellite	det
4	satellite	satellite	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	falling	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 satellite	acl
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 Earth	case
7	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 falling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a satellite					tree rules
2	fall	gerund	a satellite not said here		Earth				vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to earth=Pivot

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It may well be the space station, seen from the ground

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	7 station	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 station	aux
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 station	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 station	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 station	det
6	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 station	compound
7	station	station	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 seen	punct
9	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 station	acl
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 ground	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ground	det
12	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 seen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	may	It	the space station				well property	tree rules
2	see	participle		the space station not said here		the ground			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

It is surely a spaceship from Mars coming to visit the Earth

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	5 spaceship	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 spaceship	cop
3	surely	surely	ADV	_	5 spaceship	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 spaceship	det
5	spaceship	spaceship	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 Mars	case
7	Mars	Mars	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 spaceship	nmod
8	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 spaceship	acl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 visit	mark
10	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 coming	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Earth	det
12	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 visit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a spaceship	Mars	surely property	tree rules
2	come	gerund	a spaceship not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	visit	to-infinitive	a spaceship not said here	the Earth			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earth=Co-Agent

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