Test 9 · Day and night

If you stood on the line between the lit and dark halves of the Earth, what would you see?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: stand, see · To what, where: line

This is test 9 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 stood	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 stood	nsubj
3	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 line	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 line	det
6	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stood	obl
7	between	between	ADP	_	12 halves	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 halves	det
9	lit	lit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 halves	amod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 dark	cc
11	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 lit	conj
12	halves	half	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 line	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 Earth	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Earth	det
15	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 halves	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 see	punct
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 see	obj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 see	aux
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 see	nsubj
20	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 line	conj
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 stood	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	you			the line between the lit halves of the Earth			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on line=Location
2	see	would	you	the line between the lit halves of the Earth					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus

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

No light at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 light	det
2	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 all	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 light	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

The Moon covering the Sun

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 covering	nsubj
3	covering	cover	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Sun	det
5	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 covering	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	gerund	the Moon		the Sun				vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent sun=Destination

Option 3

The Sun straight above your head

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	root	root
3	straight	straight	ADV	_	6 head	advmod
4	above	above	ADP	_	6 head	case
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 head	nmod:poss
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Sun	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The Sun low at the edge of the sky, rising or setting

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	6 edge	nsubj
3	low	low	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 edge	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 edge	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 edge	det
6	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 sky	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sky	det
9	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 edge	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 rising	punct
11	rising	rise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 edge	parataxis
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 setting	cc
13	setting	set	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 rising	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise	gerund							vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	set	gerund							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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