Test 1 · ★★★ · Thinking like an astronomer

If the Moon did not turn on its axis at all, what would we see from the Earth over a month?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: we · What happens: not turn, see · To what, where: axis, Earth

This is test 1 · ★★★ of lesson 10 «Thinking like an astronomer» 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 Moon	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Moon	det
3	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 turn	advcl
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 turn	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 turn	advmod
6	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 axis	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 axis	nmod:poss
9	axis	axis	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turn	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 turn	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 see	punct
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 see	obj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 see	aux
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 see	nsubj
16	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 turn	conj
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 Earth	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Earth	det
19	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 see	obl
20	over	over	ADP	_	22 month	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 month	det
22	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 see	obl
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 turn	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not turn	past · do-support				Moon's axis		at all	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme on axis=Source at all=Trajectory
2	see	would	we			the Earth	month		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

No Moon at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Only the far side of the Moon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 side	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 side	det
3	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 side	amod
4	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 Moon	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Moon	det
7	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 side	nmod

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

Option 3

Always the same face, as now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 face	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 face	det
3	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 face	amod
4	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 face	punct
6	as	as	ADP	_	7 now	case
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 face	obl

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

All sides of the Moon in turn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 sides	det
2	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
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 sides	nmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 turn	case
7	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sides	nmod

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

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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