Test 6 · ★ · Gravity

Why does the Earth go around the Sun and not around the Moon?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Earth · What happens: go · To what, where: Sun

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 6 «Gravity» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 go	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Earth	det
4	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 go	nsubj
5	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	around	around	ADP	_	8 Sun	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Sun	det
8	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 Moon	cc
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 Moon	advmod
11	around	around	ADP	_	13 Moon	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Moon	det
13	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Sun	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present · do-support	the Earth			the Sun and the Moon			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme around sun=Initial_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.

The options

Option 1

The Moon's light pushes the Earth away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Moon	det
2	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 light	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Moon	case
4	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pushes	nsubj
5	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Earth	det
7	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 pushes	obj
8	away	away	ADV	_	5 pushes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push away	present	the Moon's light	the Earth				away property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earth=Theme
2	light		the Moon						nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

The Moon has no gravity at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Moon	det
2	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 gravity	det
5	gravity	gravity	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 gravity	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the Moon	no gravity		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gravity=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The Sun is nearer to the Earth than the Moon, so it pulls harder

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Sun	det
2	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 nearer	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 nearer	cop
4	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 Earth	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Earth	det
7	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 nearer	obl
8	than	than	ADP	_	10 Moon	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Moon	det
10	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 nearer	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 pulls	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	14 pulls	advmod
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 pulls	nsubj
14	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 nearer	conj
15	harder	hard	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 pulls	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the Sun					to the Earth; than the Moon; near property	tree rules
2	pull	present	Sun					hard property	vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The Sun has far more mass, so its pull is far stronger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Sun	det
2	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 more	advmod
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 mass	amod
6	mass	mass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stronger	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	13 stronger	advmod
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 pull	nmod:poss
10	pull	pull	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stronger	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 stronger	cop
12	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 stronger	advmod
13	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 has	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	the Sun	more mass		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mass=Patient
2	is	present	Sun's pull		far, strong property	tree rules
3	pull		Sun			nom pull «act transitive»: poss=agent

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