Test 12 · ★ · The Moon and its phases

my brother says the moon's got phases cos the Earth's shadow falls on it. true?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brother, got phases, Earth · What happens: say, get, fall, shadow · To what, where: shadow · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 3 «The Moon and its phases» 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 brother	nmod:poss
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 moon	det
5	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 phases	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 moon	case
7	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 phases	amod
8	phases	phase	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 falls	nsubj
9	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	14 falls	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Earth	det
11	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 shadow	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Earth	case
13	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 falls	nsubj
14	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
15	on	on	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 falls	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 true	punct
18	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 says	parataxis
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my brother		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	get	participle			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	fall	present	the moon's got phases	shadow	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on it=Location
4	shadow		the Earth		nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=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 · ✓ the right answer

No, we just see different amounts of its sunlit half

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 see	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 see	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 see	advmod
5	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 amounts	amod
7	amounts	amount	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 see	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 half	case
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 half	nmod:poss
10	sunlit	sunlit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 half	amod
11	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	7 amounts	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	we	different amounts of its sunlit half					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer amount=Stimulus
2	amount			its sunlit half					nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, the Earth's shadow makes every phase

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 makes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Earth	det
4	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 shadow	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Earth	case
6	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 makes	nsubj
7	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 phase	det
9	phase	phase	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 makes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	the Earth's shadow	every phase					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset phase=Product
2	shadow		the Earth						nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

No, clouds on the Moon make the phases

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 clouds	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 make	nsubj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 Moon	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Moon	det
6	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 clouds	nmod
7	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 phases	det
9	phases	phase	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	clouds on the Moon	the phases					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset phase=Product

Option 4

Yes, but only the full moon is from the shadow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	11 shadow	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 shadow	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	11 shadow	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 moon	det
6	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 moon	amod
7	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shadow	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 shadow	cop
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 shadow	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 shadow	det
11	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the full moon			the shadow			tree rules

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