Test 5 · The Sun as a star and the stars
Venus shines brightly in the evening sky. Why does it shine?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Venus, sky · What happens: shine · To what, where: evening sky
This is test 5 of lesson 5 «The Sun as a star and the stars» 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: Venus shines brightly in the evening sky.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Venus | Venus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 shines | nsubj |
| 2 | shines | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | brightly | brightly | ADV | _ | 2 shines | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 sky | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sky | det |
| 6 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sky | compound |
| 7 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shines | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 shines | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | present | Venus | the evening sky | brightly property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sky=Location |
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: Why does it shine?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 shine | advmod |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 shine | aux |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 shine | nsubj |
| 4 | shine | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 shine | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | present · do-support | sky | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
It reflects sunlight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 reflects | nsubj |
| 2 | reflects | reflect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reflects | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reflect | present | It | sunlight | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
It is a star that makes light
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 star | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 star | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 star | det |
| 4 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 makes | nsubj |
| 6 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 star | acl:relcl |
| 7 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 makes | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | a star | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | present | a star | light | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset light=Product |
Option 3
It is very hot from the inside
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hot | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hot | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 hot | advmod |
| 4 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 inside | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 inside | det |
| 7 | inside | inside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hot | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | the inside | hot property | tree rules |
Option 4
It reflects light from the Earth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 reflects | nsubj |
| 2 | reflects | reflect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reflects | obj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 Earth | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Earth | det |
| 6 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 reflects | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reflect | present | It | light | the Earth | tree rules |
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