Test 9 · ★★ · Eclipses
If the Moon's path were not tilted at all, what would happen?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: not tilt, happen · To what, where: path, all
This is test 9 · ★★ 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 tilted | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Moon | det |
| 3 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 path | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Moon | case |
| 5 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tilted | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 tilted | aux:pass |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 tilted | advmod |
| 8 | tilted | tilt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 happen | advcl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 all | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 tilted | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 tilted | punct |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 happen | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 happen | aux |
| 14 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 happen | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not tilt a condition, not said to happen | past · passive | the Moon's path | all | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme at all=Location | ||||
| 2 | happen | would | vn occur-48.3-1 «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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
There would be eclipses every month
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 be | expl |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 be | aux |
| 3 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | eclipses | eclipse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 be | nsubj |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 month | det |
| 6 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 be | nsubj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | would | eclipses | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
The Moon would stop going around the Earth
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 stop | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 stop | aux |
| 4 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 stop | xcomp |
| 6 | around | around | ADP | _ | 8 Earth | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Earth | det |
| 8 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 going | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | would | the Moon | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | go | gerund | the Moon not said here | the Earth | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme around earth=Initial_Location |
Option 3
There would be no eclipses ever
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 be | expl |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 be | aux |
| 3 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 eclipses | det |
| 5 | eclipses | eclipse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 be | nsubj |
| 6 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 3 be | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | would | no eclipses | there | ever | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
The Moon would have no phases
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 have | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 phases | det |
| 6 | phases | phase | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | would | the Moon | no phases | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phase=Patient |
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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