Test 10 · Day and night

why's the sky go dark at night anyway

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sky · What happens: go

This is test 10 of lesson 1 «Day and night» of the world 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 go	advmod
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sky	det
4	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	nsubj
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 go	xcomp
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 night	case
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl
9	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	5 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	the sky				night	anyway, dark property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

The Sun goes behind the mountains to rest for the night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Sun	det
2	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 goes	nsubj
3	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	behind	behind	ADP	_	6 mountains	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mountains	det
6	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 goes	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 rest	mark
8	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 goes	advcl
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 night	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 night	det
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rest	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	the Sun			the mountains			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme behind mountain=Location
2	rest	to-infinitive	the Sun not said here				night		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

The Moon blocks the Sun every evening

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 blocks	nsubj
3	blocks	block	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Sun	det
5	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 blocks	obj
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 evening	det
7	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blocks	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	block	present	the Moon	the Sun			evening		vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer sun=Theme

Option 3

The Sun runs out of light at the end of the day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Sun	det
2	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 runs	nsubj
3	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	6 light	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 light	case
6	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 runs	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 end	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 end	det
9	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 runs	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 day	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 end	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	present	the Sun			light	at the end of the day		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out light=Trajectory

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Our side of the Earth has turned away from the Sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 side	nmod:poss
2	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 turned	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Earth	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Earth	det
5	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 side	nmod
6	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 turned	aux
7	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	away	away	ADV	_	7 turned	advmod
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 Sun	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Sun	det
11	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn away	present · perfect	Our side of the Earth			the Sun		away property	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from sun=Source

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