Test 8 · Stars, planets and constellations in the night sky

Why would a traveller from Ukraine notice new constellations in South Africa?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: traveller · What happens: notice · To what, where: new constellations, South Africa

This is test 8 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 notice	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 notice	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 traveller	det
4	traveller	traveller	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 notice	nsubj
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 Ukraine	case
6	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 traveller	nmod
7	notice	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 constellations	amod
9	constellations	constellation	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 notice	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 Africa	case
11	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Africa	compound
12	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 notice	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 notice	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	notice	would	a traveller from Ukraine	new constellations		South Africa			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer constellation=Stimulus

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 · ← Mova's choice

South Africa has its own separate stars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Africa	compound
2	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 stars	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stars	amod
6	separate	separate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stars	amod
7	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	South Africa	its own separate stars					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent star=Patient

Option 2

The stars change on every continent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stars	det
2	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 change	nsubj
3	change	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 continent	case
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 continent	det
6	continent	continent	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 change	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	present	the stars			every continent			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Part of the southern sky cannot be seen from the far north

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 seen	nsubj:pass
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 sky	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sky	det
4	southern	southern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sky	amod
5	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Part	nmod
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 seen	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 seen	advmod
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 seen	aux:pass
9	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	from	from	ADP	_	13 north	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 north	det
12	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 north	amod
13	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 seen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	can · passive		Part of the southern sky		the far north			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

Option 4

The sky is closer to the ground in Africa

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 closer	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 closer	cop
4	closer	close	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 ground	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ground	det
7	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 closer	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 Africa	case
9	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 closer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the sky			Africa		to the ground; close 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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