Test 2 · ★★ · Eclipses
Tonight there is a half moon. Which is true?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Tonight · What happens: be
This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 8 «Eclipses» 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: Tonight there is a half moon.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tonight | tonight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 moon | det |
| 5 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 6 moon | compound |
| 6 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | Tonight | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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: Which is true?
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 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A lunar eclipse could happen tonight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 eclipse | det |
| 2 | lunar | lunar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 eclipse | amod |
| 3 | eclipse | eclipse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 happen | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 happen | aux |
| 5 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | tonight | tonight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 happen | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | could | a lunar eclipse | tonight | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
A solar eclipse could happen tonight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 eclipse | det |
| 2 | solar | solar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 eclipse | amod |
| 3 | eclipse | eclipse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 happen | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 happen | aux |
| 5 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | tonight | tonight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 happen | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | could | a solar eclipse | tonight | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
No eclipse can happen tonight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 eclipse | det |
| 2 | eclipse | eclipse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 happen | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 happen | aux |
| 4 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | tonight | tonight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 happen | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | can | no eclipse | tonight | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Both eclipses could happen tonight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 eclipses | det |
| 2 | eclipses | eclipse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 happen | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 happen | aux |
| 4 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | tonight | tonight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 happen | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | could | both eclipses | tonight | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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