Test 4 · ★ · The Moon and its phases
Mia sees a thin crescent moon that is a bit bigger each evening. What will she see in a few more days?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mia, thin crescent moon · What happens: see, be · To what, where: thin crescent moon
This is test 4 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: Mia sees a thin crescent moon that is a bit bigger each evening.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 sees | nsubj |
| 2 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 moon | det |
| 4 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 moon | amod |
| 5 | crescent | crescent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 moon | compound |
| 6 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sees | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 bigger | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 bigger | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bit | det |
| 10 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bigger | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 moon | acl:relcl |
| 12 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 evening | det |
| 13 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bigger | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sees | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | Mia | a thin crescent moon | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer moon=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | present | a thin crescent moon | evening | a bit obl:unmarked; big 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.
Sentence 2: What will she see in a few more days?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 see | obj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 days | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 days | det |
| 7 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 days | amod |
| 8 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 days | amod |
| 9 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 see | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | future | Mia | day | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1
A full moon at once
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 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 moon | amod |
| 3 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 once | case |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 moon | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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
A half 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 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 3 moon | compound |
| 3 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The same crescent
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 crescent | det |
| 2 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 crescent | amod |
| 3 | crescent | crescent | 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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