Test 5 · The shape and size of the Earth, the poles and the equator

Why do photographs from space show a round Earth?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: photographs · What happens: show · To what, where: round Earth

This is test 5 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 show	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 show	aux
3	photographs	photograph	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 show	nsubj
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 space	case
5	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 photographs	nmod
6	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 Earth	det
8	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Earth	amod
9	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 show	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 show	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present · do-support	photographs from space		a round Earth				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent earth=Recipient

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

Because space is round

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 round	mark
2	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 round	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 round	cop
4	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	space					round property	tree rules

Option 2

Because the Moon is in the way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	3 Moon	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Moon	det
3	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 way	obl
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 way	cop
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 way	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 way	det
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present				the way		because the Moon	tree rules

Option 3

Because cameras make everything round

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 make	mark
2	cameras	camera	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	nsubj
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 make	obj
5	round	round	ADV	_	3 make	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	cameras	everything				round property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset everything=Product

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Because the Earth is a ball

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	6 ball	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Earth	det
3	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 ball	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 ball	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 ball	det
6	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the Earth	a ball					tree rules

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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