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Test 6 · ★★★ · Thinking it through — forces, heat, light and energy

An evening walker in the countryside sees his long shadow stretching ahead of him. Which way is he walking?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: evening walker, long shadow, walker · What happens: see, stretch, shadow, walk · To what, where: long shadow, way

This is test 6 · ★★★ of lesson 60 «Thinking it through — forces, heat, light and energy» 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: An evening walker in the countryside sees his long shadow stretching ahead of him.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 walker	det
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 walker	compound
3	walker	walker	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sees	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 countryside	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 countryside	det
6	countryside	countryside	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 walker	nmod
7	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 shadow	nmod:poss
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 shadow	amod
10	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sees	obj
11	stretching	stretch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 sees	xcomp
12	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	11 stretching	advmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 stretching	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sees	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	a evening walker in the countryside	walker's long shadow					tree rules
2	stretch	gerund	walker's long shadow not said here					of walker; ahead property	vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme of he=Location
3	shadow		walker						nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=agent

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: Which way is he walking?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 walking	obl:unmarked
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 walking	aux
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 walking	nsubj
5	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 walking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	present · progressive	walker	which way					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

He could be walking any way at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 walking	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 walking	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 walking	aux
4	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 way	det
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 walking	obl:unmarked
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 walking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	could · progressive	He	any way		all			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Trajectory

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

East, away from the setting Sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 away	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 East	punct
3	away	away	ADV	_	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 setting	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 setting	det
6	setting	setting	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 away	obl
7	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 setting	appos

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

Option 3

West, towards the setting Sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	West	west	ADV	_	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 West	punct
3	towards	towards	ADP	_	5 setting	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 setting	det
5	setting	setting	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 West	obl
6	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 setting	appos

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

North, towards the Pole Star

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Star	punct
3	towards	towards	ADP	_	6 Star	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Star	det
5	Pole	Pole	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Star	compound
6	Star	Star	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 North	conj

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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