Test 7 · Stars, planets and constellations in the night sky

Which is true about the stars during the day?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: be

This is test 7 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

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	about	about	ADP	_	6 stars	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stars	det
6	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 true	obl
7	during	during	ADP	_	9 day	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 true	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present					day	about the stars; true 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

They all hide behind the Sun

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	3 hide	nsubj
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 hide	advmod
3	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	behind	behind	ADP	_	6 Sun	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Sun	det
6	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 hide	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	present	They			the Sun			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind sun=Location

Option 2

They move under the ground until night comes again

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	2 move	nsubj
2	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	under	under	ADP	_	5 ground	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ground	det
5	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 move	obl
6	until	until	SCONJ	_	8 comes	mark
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 comes	nsubj
8	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 move	advcl
9	again	again	ADV	_	8 comes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	present	They			the ground			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme under ground=Trajectory
2	come	present	night				again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

They switch off until evening

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	2 switch	nsubj
2	switch	switch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 switch	compound:prt
4	until	until	ADP	_	5 evening	case
5	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 switch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	switch off	present	They				evening		vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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

They are still there, but the sunlight hides them

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 there	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 there	cop
3	still	still	ADV	_	4 there	advmod
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hides	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 hides	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sunlight	det
8	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hides	nsubj
9	hides	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 there	advcl
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hides	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They				still	there property	tree rules
2	hide	present	the sunlight	them = they					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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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