Test 8 · Day and night

Which picture of day and night is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: picture · What happens: be

This is test 8 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 picture	det
2	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 right	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 day	case
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 picture	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 night	cc
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 day	conj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 right	cop
8	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	which picture of day and night					right property	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

A ball whose lamp is turned on and off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 ball	det
2	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turned	nsubj:pass
3	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	4 lamp	nmod:poss
4	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turned	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 turned	aux:pass
6	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	6 turned	compound:prt
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 off	cc
9	off	off	ADV	_	7 on	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn on	present · passive		a ball					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

Option 2

A still ball with a lamp going around it daily

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 ball	det
2	still	still	ADV	_	3 ball	advmod
3	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 going	nsubj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 lamp	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lamp	det
6	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ball	nmod
7	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	around	around	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 going	obl
10	daily	daily	ADV	_	7 going	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	gerund	a ball with a lamp			lamp		daily property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme around it=Initial_Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A spinning ball lit from one side by a lamp

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 ball	det
2	spinning	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 ball	amod
3	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 ball	acl
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 side	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 side	nummod
7	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lit	obl
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 lamp	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 lamp	det
10	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spin	gerund							vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	lit	participle		a spinning ball not said here		one side		by a lamp	tree rules

Option 4

A ball that is lit from all sides at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 ball	det
2	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 lit	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lit	aux:pass
5	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 ball	acl:relcl
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 sides	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 sides	det
8	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lit	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 once	case
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 lit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lit	present · passive		a ball		all sides			tree rules

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