Test 2 · Mirrors, shadows and colours
A flagpole's shadow points to the west. Where in the sky is the Sun?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: shadow, Sun · What happens: point, shadow, be · To what, where: west, flagpole, sky
This is test 2 of lesson 84 «Mirrors, shadows and colours» 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: A flagpole's shadow points to the west.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 flagpole | det |
| 2 | flagpole | flagpole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shadow | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 flagpole | case |
| 4 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 points | nsubj |
| 5 | points | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 west | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 west | det |
| 8 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 points | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 points | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | point | present | a flagpole's shadow | the west | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to west=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | shadow | a flagpole | nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=patient |
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: Where in the sky is the Sun?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 sky | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sky | det |
| 4 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Where | obl |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Where | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Sun | det |
| 7 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Where | nsubj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Where | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the Sun | the sky | where property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
In the east
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 east | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 east | det |
| 3 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Straight overhead
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Straight | straight | ADV | _ | 2 overhead | advmod |
| 2 | overhead | overhead | ADV | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
In the west
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 west | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 west | det |
| 3 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
In the north at night
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 north | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 north | det |
| 3 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 night | case |
| 5 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 north | nmod |
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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