Test 1 · ★★★ · Thinking like a scientist: the body and physics
A boy in Toronto sees lightning and counts 9 seconds until the thunder. About how far away is the storm?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy, storm · What happens: see, count, be · To what, where: lightning
This is test 1 · ★★★ of lesson 40 «Thinking like a scientist: the body and physics» 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: A boy in Toronto sees lightning and counts 9 seconds until the thunder.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sees | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Toronto | case |
| 4 | Toronto | Toronto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sees | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 counts | cc |
| 8 | counts | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sees | conj |
| 9 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 seconds | nummod |
| 10 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 counts | obj |
| 11 | until | until | ADP | _ | 13 thunder | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 thunder | det |
| 13 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 counts | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sees | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | a boy in Toronto | lightning | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lightning=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | count | present | a boy in Toronto not said here | until the thunder; second | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
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: About how far away is the storm?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | SCONJ | _ | 4 away | mark |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 far | advmod |
| 3 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 away | advmod |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 away | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 storm | det |
| 7 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 away | nsubj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 away | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the storm | away, far property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
About 30 kilometres
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 30 | advmod |
| 2 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 kilometres | nummod |
| 3 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
About 300 metres
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 300 | advmod |
| 2 | 300 | 300 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 metres | nummod |
| 3 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
About 9 kilometres
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 9 | advmod |
| 2 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 kilometres | nummod |
| 3 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
About 3 kilometres
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 3 | advmod |
| 2 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 kilometres | nummod |
| 3 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 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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