Test 5 · ★★ · Eclipses

Astronauts on the Moon look at the Earth during a lunar eclipse. What do they see?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Astronauts · What happens: look, see

This is test 5 · ★★ 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: Astronauts on the Moon look at the Earth during a lunar eclipse.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Astronauts	astronaut	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 look	nsubj
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 Moon	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Moon	det
4	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Astronauts	nmod
5	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 Earth	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Earth	det
8	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 look	obl
9	during	during	ADP	_	12 eclipse	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 eclipse	det
11	lunar	lunar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 eclipse	amod
12	eclipse	eclipse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 look	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 look	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	Astronauts on the Moon				during a lunar eclipse	at the Earth	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at earth=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 do they see?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present · do-support	Astronauts = astronaut						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

The Earth hiding the Sun, with a red ring of light around it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Earth	det
2	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 hiding	nsubj
3	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Sun	det
5	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 hiding	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 ring	punct
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 ring	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 ring	det
9	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ring	amod
10	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hiding	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 light	case
12	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ring	nmod
13	around	around	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 ring	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	gerund	the Earth	the Sun				with a red ring of light around light	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sun=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The Moon's dark round shadow sliding slowly across the Earth below

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	6 shadow	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Moon	case
4	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 shadow	amod
5	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 shadow	amod
6	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	sliding	slide	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 shadow	acl
8	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	7 sliding	advmod
9	across	across	ADP	_	11 Earth	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Earth	det
11	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 sliding	obl
12	below	below	ADV	_	7 sliding	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slide	gerund	the Moon's dark round shadow not said here			the Earth		below, slowly property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across earth=Trajectory
2	shadow		the Moon						nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

Nothing unusual at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	unusual	unusual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Nothing	amod
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 all	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 unusual	obl

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

Option 4

A full Earth shining brightly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 Earth	det
2	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Earth	amod
3	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 Earth	acl
5	brightly	brightly	ADV	_	4 shining	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shine	gerund	a full Earth not said here					brightly property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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