Test 2 · ★★★ · Thinking like an astronomer
On the Earth a bathroom scale shows 30 kilograms for a girl. What would the same scale show on the Moon?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bathroom scale · What happens: show · To what, where: 30 kilograms, Earth
This is test 2 · ★★★ 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
Sentence 1: On the Earth a bathroom scale shows 30 kilograms for a girl.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 Earth | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Earth | det |
| 3 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 shows | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 scale | det |
| 5 | bathroom | bathroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 scale | compound |
| 6 | scale | scale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shows | nsubj |
| 7 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 kilograms | nummod |
| 9 | kilograms | kilogram | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 shows | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 girl | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 girl | det |
| 12 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shows | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 shows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | a bathroom scale | 30 kilograms | the Earth | for a girl | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent kilogram=Recipient |
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.
Sentence 2: What would the same scale show on the Moon?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 show | det |
| 4 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 show | amod |
| 5 | scale | scale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 show | compound |
| 6 | show | show | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 Moon | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Moon | det |
| 9 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 show | nmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
About 0 kilograms
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 0 | advmod |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 kilograms | nummod |
| 3 | kilograms | kilogram | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
About 5 kilograms
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 5 | advmod |
| 2 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 kilograms | nummod |
| 3 | kilograms | kilogram | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
About 180 kilograms
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 180 | advmod |
| 2 | 180 | 180 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 kilograms | nummod |
| 3 | kilograms | kilogram | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
About 30 kilograms
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 30 | advmod |
| 2 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 kilograms | nummod |
| 3 | kilograms | kilogram | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
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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