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Test 9 · Stars, planets and constellations in the night sky

An astronaut on the Moon, with no air around, looks at the stars. What does she notice?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: astronaut, air · What happens: look, notice

This is test 9 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: An astronaut on the Moon, with no air around, looks at the stars.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 astronaut	det
2	astronaut	astronaut	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 looks	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 astronaut	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 air	punct
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 air	case
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 air	det
9	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 astronaut	conj
10	around	around	ADV	_	9 air	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 astronaut	punct
12	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 stars	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 stars	det
15	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 looks	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 looks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	a astronaut on the Moon and no air					at the stars	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at star=Theme

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 does she notice?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 notice	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 notice	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 notice	nsubj
4	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 notice	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	notice	present · do-support	air						vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

The stars do not twinkle

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	5 twinkle	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 twinkle	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 twinkle	advmod
5	twinkle	twinkle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not twinkle	present · do-support	the stars						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

There are no stars at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 are	expl
2	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 stars	det
4	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 are	nsubj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 are	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	does	present	no stars			all; there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The stars twinkle much more

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 twinkle	nsubj
3	twinkle	twinkle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 more	advmod
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 twinkle	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	twinkle	present	the stars						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

The stars are all red

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	5 red	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 red	cop
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 red	advmod
5	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the stars					all, red 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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