Test 11 · ★★★ · Thinking like a scientist: the body and physics

saw lightning, counted 6 before the thunder, how far is it

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lightning · What happens: see, count, be · To what, where: lightning, 6

This is test 11 · ★★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 saw	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 counted	punct
4	counted	count	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 saw	conj
5	6	6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 counted	obj
6	before	before	ADP	_	8 thunder	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 thunder	det
8	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 counted	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 far	punct
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 far	advmod
11	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 saw	advmod
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 far	cop
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 far	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	past		lightning			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lightning=Stimulus
2	count	participle		6	before the thunder		vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 6=Theme
3	is	present	lightning			far 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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Right overhead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 overhead	amod
2	overhead	overhead	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

About six kilometres

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 six	advmod
2	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word 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 3

About half a kilometre

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 half	advmod
2	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	4 kilometre	det:predet
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 kilometre	det
4	kilometre	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

About two kilometres

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 two	advmod
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word 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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