Test 5 · ★ · Light, shadows and colours
At night the Moon shines brightly. Where does its light come from?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Moon, light · What happens: shine, come, light
This is test 5 · ★ 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: At night the Moon shines brightly.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 night | case |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shines | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Moon | det |
| 4 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 shines | nsubj |
| 5 | shines | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | brightly | brightly | ADV | _ | 5 shines | advmod |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 shines | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | present | the Moon | night | brightly property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=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 its light come from?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 come | advmod |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | aux |
| 3 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 light | nmod:poss |
| 4 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | nsubj |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 come | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present · do-support | Moon's light | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | light | Moon | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |
The options
Option 1
Glowing rocks deep inside it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Glowing | glow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Glowing | obj |
| 3 | deep | deep | ADV | _ | 1 Glowing | advmod |
| 4 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Glowing | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glow | gerund | rocks | it | deep property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent rock=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Sunlight reflected off its surface
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sunlight | Sunlight | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 reflected | nsubj |
| 2 | reflected | reflect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 reflected | compound:prt |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 surface | nmod:poss |
| 5 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reflected | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reflect off | past | Sunlight | its surface | tree rules |
Option 3
Fire burning on the Moon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Fire | acl |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 Moon | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Moon | det |
| 5 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 burning | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | gerund | Fire not said here | the Moon | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on moon=Location |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Light from the Earth's cities
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 cities | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Earth | det |
| 4 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 cities | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Earth | case |
| 6 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Light | nmod |
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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