Exam question 2 · Eclipses

State the lunar phase at which, and at which alone, a lunar eclipse may occur.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: lunar eclipse · What happens: occur · To what, where: lunar phase

This is exam question 2 of lesson 8 «Eclipses» of the world course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	State	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 phase	det
3	lunar	lunar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 phase	amod
4	phase	phase	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	appos
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 occur	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 occur	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 occur	cc
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 which	case
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 occur	obj
11	alone	alone	ADV	_	10 which	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 which	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 eclipse	det
14	lunar	lunar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 eclipse	amod
15	eclipse	eclipse	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 occur	nsubj
16	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 occur	aux
17	occur	occur	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 phase	acl:relcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	occur	may	a lunar eclipse	the lunar phase		the lunar phase			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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Full moon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 moon	amod
2	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

New moon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	New	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 moon	amod
2	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Last quarter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 quarter	amod
2	quarter	quarter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

First quarter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	First	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 quarter	advmod
2	quarter	quarter	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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