Test 7 · ★ · The Moon's month and the year round the Sun

Erin: "Moon's out at lunchtime, isn't that the night shift?" What's true?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Moon, Erin · What happens: be, not be · To what, where: lunchtime, night shift

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 119 «The Moon's month and the year round the Sun» 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: Erin: "Moon's out at lunchtime, isn't that the night shift?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Erin	Erin	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 shift	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 lunchtime	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 lunchtime	punct
4	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 lunchtime	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 lunchtime	cop
6	out	out	ADV	_	8 lunchtime	advmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 lunchtime	case
8	lunchtime	lunchtime	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Erin	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Erin	punct
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 shift	cop
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 shift	advmod
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 shift	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 shift	det
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 shift	compound
15	shift	shift	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 shift	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 shift	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Moon			lunchtime		out property	tree rules
2	not is a in a quote	present	Erin	the night shift					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.

Sentence 2: What's true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	's	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

The options

Option 1

The Moon only comes out at night, so it must be a cloud

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	4 comes	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 comes	advmod
4	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 comes	compound:prt
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 night	case
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 comes	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 cloud	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	14 cloud	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 cloud	nsubj
11	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 cloud	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 cloud	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 cloud	det
14	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 comes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come out	present	the Moon				night		vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
2	is a	must	Moon	a cloud					tree rules

Option 2

It's a different, smaller moon that comes out by day

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	7 moon	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 moon	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 moon	det
4	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 moon	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 moon	punct
6	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 moon	amod
7	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 comes	nsubj
9	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 moon	acl:relcl
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 comes	compound:prt
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 day	case
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 comes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a different smaller moon					tree rules
2	come out	present	a different smaller moon				day		vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The Moon is up about 12 hours a day, and those hours move round the clock

The tree, 16 words

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	7 hours	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 hours	cop
4	up	up	ADV	_	7 hours	advmod
5	about	about	ADV	_	6 12	advmod
6	12	12	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 hours	nummod
7	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 move	nsubj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hours	nmod:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 move	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 move	cc
12	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	13 hours	det
13	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 move	nsubj
14	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	round	round	ADP	_	17 clock	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 clock	det
17	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 move	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the Moon	12 hours			day		tree rules
2	move	present	12 hours			the clock			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme round clock=Trajectory

Option 4

The Moon and the Sun swap places at noon

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	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 places	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 places	det
5	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 places	compound
6	swap	swap	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 places	compound
7	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Moon	conj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 noon	case
9	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 places	nmod

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

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