Test 1 · ★ · Light, shadows and colours
A child stands in the sunshine. Where does the shadow fall?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: child, shadow · What happens: stand, fall · To what, where: sunshine
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 53 «Light, shadows and colours» 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 child stands in the sunshine.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 child | det |
| 2 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stands | nsubj |
| 3 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 sunshine | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sunshine | det |
| 6 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stands | obl |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stands | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | present | a child | the sunshine | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sunshine=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: Where does the shadow fall?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 fall | advmod |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fall | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 shadow | det |
| 4 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fall | nsubj |
| 5 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 fall | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | present · do-support | the shadow | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
On the side away from the Sun
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 side | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 side | det |
| 3 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 away | obl |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 Sun | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Sun | det |
| 7 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 away | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Directly on top of the child
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Directly | directly | ADV | _ | 3 top | advmod |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 top | case |
| 3 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 child | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 child | det |
| 6 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 top | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Under the child, whatever the Sun does
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Under | under | ADP | _ | 3 child | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 child | det |
| 3 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 whatever | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 child | punct |
| 5 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Sun | det |
| 7 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 does | nsubj |
| 8 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 whatever | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | the Sun | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Always towards the Sun
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | root | root |
| 2 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 4 Sun | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Sun | det |
| 4 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Always | obl |
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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