Test 3 · Stars, planets and constellations in the night sky
A bright point does not twinkle and has moved compared with the stars since last month. What is it probably?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: bright point · What happens: not twinkle, move, compare, be · To what, where: point
This is test 3 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: A bright point does not twinkle and has moved compared with the stars since last month.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 point | det |
| 2 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 point | amod |
| 3 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 twinkle | nsubj:outer |
| 4 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 twinkle | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 twinkle | advmod |
| 6 | twinkle | twinkle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 moved | cc |
| 8 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 moved | aux |
| 9 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 twinkle | conj |
| 10 | compared | compare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 moved | advcl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 stars | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 stars | det |
| 13 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 compared | obl |
| 14 | since | since | ADP | _ | 16 month | case |
| 15 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 month | amod |
| 16 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 compared | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 twinkle | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not twinkle | present · do-support | a bright point | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | move | present · perfect | a bright point not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | compare | participle | a bright point not said here | month | with the stars | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with star=Co-Patient |
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 is it probably?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 it | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 What | nsubj |
| 4 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 1 What | advmod |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | point | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A planet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 planet | det |
| 2 | planet | planet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A shooting star
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 star | det |
| 2 | shooting | shooting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 star | compound |
| 3 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A very young star
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 star | det |
| 2 | very | very | ADV | _ | 3 young | advmod |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 star | amod |
| 4 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A distant galaxy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 galaxy | det |
| 2 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 galaxy | amod |
| 3 | galaxy | galaxy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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