Test 4 · ★★★ · Thinking like an astronomer

Which is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 4 · ★★★ 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true 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 bag of rice has more mass on the Moon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bag	det
2	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 rice	case
4	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bag	nmod
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 mass	amod
7	mass	mass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 Moon	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Moon	det
10	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 mass	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	a bag of rice	more mass		the Moon			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mass=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A bag of rice has the same mass on the Earth and on the Moon

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bag	det
2	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 rice	case
4	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bag	nmod
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mass	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 mass	amod
8	mass	mass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 Earth	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Earth	det
11	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 mass	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 Moon	cc
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 Moon	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Moon	det
15	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Earth	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	a bag of rice	the same mass		the Earth and the Moon			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mass=Patient

Option 3

A bag of rice has the same weight everywhere

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bag	det
2	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 rice	case
4	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bag	nmod
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 weight	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 weight	amod
8	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	obj
9	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 has	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	a bag of rice	the same weight				everywhere property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Patient

Option 4

A bag of rice has no mass in space

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bag	det
2	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 rice	case
4	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bag	nmod
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 mass	det
7	mass	mass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 space	case
9	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mass	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	a bag of rice	no mass		space			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mass=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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