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Test 1 · The shape and size of the Earth, the poles and the equator

A traveller flies east and keeps going without turning. What happens?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: traveller · What happens: fly, keep, go, turn, happen

This is test 1 of lesson 7 «The shape and size of the Earth, the poles and the equator» 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 traveller flies east and keeps going without turning.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 traveller	det
2	traveller	traveller	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flies	nsubj
3	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	east	east	ADV	_	3 flies	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 keeps	cc
6	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 flies	conj
7	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 keeps	xcomp
8	without	without	SCONJ	_	9 turning	mark
9	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 going	advcl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 flies	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	present	a traveller					east property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep	present	a traveller not said here						tree rules
3	go	gerund	a traveller not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	turn	gerund	a traveller not said here						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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 happens?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 happens	nsubj
2	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happens	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

She reaches the North Pole

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 reaches	nsubj
2	reaches	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Pole	det
4	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Pole	compound
5	Pole	Pole	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 reaches	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reach	present	She	the North Pole					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent pole=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

She comes back to where she started

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 comes	nsubj
2	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 comes	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 started	case
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 started	advmod
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 started	nsubj
7	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 comes	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	present	She						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	start	past	she						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 3

She flies away into space

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 flies	nsubj
2	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 flies	advmod
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 space	case
5	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flies	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly away	present	She					into space result; away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into space=Result

Option 4

She falls off the edge of the Earth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 falls	nsubj
2	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	5 edge	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 edge	det
5	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 falls	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 Earth	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Earth	det
8	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 edge	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall off	present	She	the edge of the Earth					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient edge=Extent

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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