Test 2 · Stars, planets and constellations in the night sky
Two stars look side by side in the same constellation. Which is true?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Two stars · What happens: look, be · To what, where: side, same constellation
This is test 2 of lesson 70 «Stars, planets and constellations in the night sky» 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: Two stars look side by side in the same constellation.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 stars | nummod |
| 2 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 look | nsubj |
| 3 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 look | obj |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 side | case |
| 6 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 look | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 constellation | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 constellation | det |
| 9 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 constellation | amod |
| 10 | constellation | constellation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 look | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | Two stars | side | the same constellation | by side | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme side=Attribute |
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 is true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
They must be the same size
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 size | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 size | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 size | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 size | det |
| 5 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 size | amod |
| 6 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | must | They | the same size | tree rules |
Option 2
They must be touching each other
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 touching | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 touching | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 touching | aux |
| 4 | touching | touch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 4 touching | obj |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 each | fixed |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | must · progressive | They | each | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme each=Co-Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
They must be exactly the same distance away from us
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 distance | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 distance | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 distance | cop |
| 4 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 7 distance | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 distance | det |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 distance | amod |
| 7 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 distance | advmod |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 us | case |
| 10 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 distance | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | must | They | the same distance | from us; away, exactly property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
One may be much farther from us than the other
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 farther | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 farther | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 farther | cop |
| 4 | much | much | ADV | _ | 5 farther | advmod |
| 5 | farther | far | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 us | case |
| 7 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 farther | obl |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 other | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 other | det |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 farther | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | may | One | from us; than the other; far property | tree rules |
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