Test 8 · The shape and size of the Earth, the poles and the equator

Which shows best that the Earth is round?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Earth · What happens: show, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 shows	nsubj
2	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	2 shows	advmod
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 round	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Earth	det
6	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 round	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 round	cop
8	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 shows	ccomp
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 shows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present						well property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	the Earth					round property	tree rules

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 Sun is hot at noon

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 hot	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hot	cop
4	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 noon	case
6	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hot	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the Sun				noon	hot property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Its shadow on the Moon is always round

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 shadow	nmod:poss
2	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 round	nsubj
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 shadow	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 round	cop
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 round	advmod
8	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Its shadow on the Moon					always, round property	tree rules
2	shadow		Its = it			the Moon			nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=agent on=place

Option 3

Rivers always flow downhill towards the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 flow	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 flow	advmod
3	flow	flow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	downhill	downhill	ADV	_	3 flow	advmod
5	towards	towards	ADP	_	7 sea	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sea	det
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flow	present	Rivers					towards the sea; always, downhill property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

The sky is blue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sky	det
2	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blue	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 blue	cop
4	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the sky					blue property	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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