Test 9 · ★★★ · Thinking like an astronomer

Which shows best that the Moon turns on its axis?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Moon · What happens: show, turn · To what, where: axis

This is test 9 · ★★★ 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	2 shows	nsubj
2	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	2 shows	advmod
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 turns	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Moon	det
6	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 turns	nsubj
7	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 shows	advcl
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 axis	case
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 axis	nmod:poss
10	axis	axis	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 turns	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 shows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present						well property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	turn	present	the Moon			Moon's axis			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on axis=Trajectory

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 · ✓ the right answer

It keeps the same face to us while going all the way around us

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 face	det
4	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 face	amod
5	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keeps	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 us	case
7	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 keeps	obl
8	while	while	SCONJ	_	9 going	mark
9	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 keeps	advcl
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 way	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 way	det
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 going	obl:unmarked
13	around	around	ADP	_	14 us	case
14	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 going	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	It	the same face	us				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Theme
2	go	gerund		all way				around us	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme around we=Initial_Location

Option 2

It looks much bigger when it is low near the horizon than when high up

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looks	nsubj
2	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	much	much	ADV	_	4 bigger	advmod
4	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 looks	xcomp
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 low	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 low	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 low	cop
8	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 looks	advcl
9	near	near	ADP	_	11 horizon	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 horizon	det
11	horizon	horizon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 low	obl
12	than	than	SCONJ	_	14 high	mark
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 high	advmod
14	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 looks	advmod
15	up	up	ADV	_	14 high	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	It					big, high property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	is	present	it			the horizon		low property	tree rules

Option 3

It rises in the east

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rises	nsubj
2	rises	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 east	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 east	det
5	east	east	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rises	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise	present	It			the east			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in east=Location

Option 4

It has phases every month

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	phases	phase	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 month	det
5	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	It	phases			month		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phase=Patient

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