Test 3 · ★★ · Eclipses

If the Moon were twice as far away, how would solar eclipses change?

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

This is test 3 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	8 away	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Moon	det
3	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 away	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 away	cop
5	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 away	advmod
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 far	advmod
7	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 away	advmod
8	away	away	ADV	_	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 change	punct
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 change	advmod
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 change	aux
12	solar	solar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 eclipses	amod
13	eclipses	eclipse	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 change	compound
14	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 away	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 away	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Moon					eclipses change obl; away, far, twice 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 would happen every month

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 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 month	det
5	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would	They				month		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

They would be seen from the whole Earth

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 seen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 seen	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 seen	aux:pass
4	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	8 Earth	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Earth	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Earth	amod
8	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 seen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	would · passive		They		the whole Earth			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

Option 3

The Moon would cover the Sun for much longer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Moon	det
2	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 cover	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 cover	aux
4	cover	cover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Sun	det
6	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 cover	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 longer	case
8	much	much	ADV	_	9 longer	advmod
9	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 cover	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	would	the Moon		the Sun				vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent sun=Destination

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

The Moon would look too small to cover the whole Sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Moon	det
2	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 look	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 look	aux
4	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 small	advmod
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 look	xcomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 cover	mark
8	cover	cover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 small	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Sun	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Sun	amod
11	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 cover	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	would	the Moon					small property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	cover	to-infinitive	the Moon not said here		the whole Sun				vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sun=Destination

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