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Test 9 · The Sun as a star and the stars

Light from a star took a hundred years to reach you. What do you see?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Light, you · What happens: take, reach, see · To what, where: you

This is test 9 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: Light from a star took a hundred years to reach you.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	nsubj
2	from	from	ADP	_	4 star	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 star	det
4	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Light	nmod
5	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hundred	det
7	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 years	nummod
8	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 took	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 reach	mark
10	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 took	advcl
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 reach	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 took	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	Light from a star				year		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	reach	to-infinitive	Light from a star not said here	you					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent you=Theme

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 do you see?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 see	obj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 see	nsubj
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present · do-support	you						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The star as it is right now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 star	det
2	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 is	nsubj
3	as	as	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 star	nmod
5	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	right	right	ADV	_	7 now	advmod
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 is	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	the star as it				now		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Only the reflection of the Sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 reflection	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 reflection	det
3	reflection	reflection	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 Sun	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Sun	det
6	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 reflection	nmod

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

Option 3

The star as it will be in a hundred years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 star	det
2	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	as	as	ADP	_	10 years	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 years	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 years	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 years	cop
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 years	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 years	det
9	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 years	nummod
10	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 star	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	future	star				as a hundred years		tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The star as it was a hundred years ago

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 star	det
2	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 years	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 years	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 years	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 years	det
7	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 years	nummod
8	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 star	appos
9	ago	ago	ADV	_	8 years	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	star	a hundred years				ago property	tree rules

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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