Exam question 4 · The Moon and its phases

Whereas the Earth is situated between the Sun and the Moon, ascertain the phase thereby observed.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: situate, ascertain, observe · To what, where: Earth, phase

This is exam question 4 of lesson 3 «The Moon and its phases» of the world course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Whereas	whereas	SCONJ	_	5 situated	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Earth	det
3	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 situated	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 situated	aux:pass
5	situated	situate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 ascertain	advcl
6	between	between	ADP	_	8 Sun	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Sun	det
8	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 situated	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 Moon	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Moon	det
11	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Sun	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ascertain	punct
13	ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 phase	det
15	phase	phase	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ascertain	obj
16	thereby	thereby	ADV	_	17 observed	advmod
17	observed	observe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 phase	acl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	situate	present · passive	the Earth	between the Sun and the Moon	vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme between sun=Destination
2	ascertain	present	the phase		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phase=Topic
3	observe	participle	the phase not said here	thereby property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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

Waning crescent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Waning	wane	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 crescent	amod
2	crescent	crescent	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wane	gerund							vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

A new moon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 moon	det
2	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 moon	amod
3	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Full moon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 moon	amod
2	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

First quarter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	First	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 quarter	advmod
2	quarter	quarter	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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