Test 4 · ★★ · Eclipses
In one town the Sun goes dark for a few minutes, while a city 2 thousand kilometres away sees nothing special. What is happening?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Sun, city · What happens: go, see, happen · To what, where: one town, nothing
This is test 4 · ★★ 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: In one town the Sun goes dark for a few minutes, while a city 2 thousand kilometres away sees nothing special.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 town | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 town | nummod |
| 3 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 goes | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Sun | det |
| 5 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 goes | nsubj |
| 6 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 goes | xcomp |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 minutes | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 minutes | det |
| 10 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 minutes | amod |
| 11 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 dark | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sees | punct |
| 13 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 20 sees | mark |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 city | det |
| 15 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sees | nsubj |
| 16 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 thousand | compound |
| 17 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 kilometres | nummod |
| 18 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 away | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 city | advmod |
| 20 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 goes | conj |
| 21 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 20 sees | obj |
| 22 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 nothing | amod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 goes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | the Sun | one town | dark property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in town=Location | |||
| 2 | see | present | a city | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=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.
Sentence 2: What is happening?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 happening | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 happening | aux |
| 3 | happening | happen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 happening | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present · progressive | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1
A sunset
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 sunset | det |
| 2 | sunset | sunset | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A solar eclipse
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 | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A lunar eclipse
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 | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A new moon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 moon | det |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 moon | amod |
| 3 | moon | moon | 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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