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title: A girl in Tasmania sees green and pink light rippling in the souther… — The night sky and outdoor myths · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl in Tasmania sees green and pink light rippling in the southern sky at night. What is she seeing? Test 1 · ★★ of lesson 240 «The night sky and outdoor myths» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choi
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# Test 1 · ★★ · The night sky and outdoor myths

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A girl in Tasmania sees green and pink light rippling in the southern sky at night. What is she seeing?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** girl · **What happens:** see · **To what, where:** green light rippling, southern sky

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This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 240 «The night sky and outdoor myths» of the everyday 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/240-night-sky-and-outdoor-myths/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A girl in Tasmania sees green and pink light rippling in the southern sky at night.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:240-night-sky-and-outdoor-myths:t1:1
# text = A girl in Tasmania sees green and pink light rippling in the southern sky at night.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Tasmania	Tasmania	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	sees	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	pink	pink	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
9	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	rippling	rippling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | a girl in Tasmania | green light rippling |  | the southern sky | night |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rippling=Stimulus |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What is she seeing?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:240-night-sky-and-outdoor-myths:t1:2
# text = What is she seeing?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present · progressive | girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Lights from a ship far out at sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:240-night-sky-and-outdoor-myths:t1:o1:1
# text = Lights from a ship far out at sea
1	Lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
6	out	out	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A shooting star

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:240-night-sky-and-outdoor-myths:t1:o2:1
# text = A shooting star
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	shooting	shooting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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The southern lights

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:240-night-sky-and-outdoor-myths:t1:o3:1
# text = The southern lights
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A rainbow at night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:240-night-sky-and-outdoor-myths:t1:o4:1
# text = A rainbow at night
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rainbow	rainbow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

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**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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