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title: Lily wants to look at sunspots through Dad's binoculars. What should… — The Sun, our star · tree and pragmatics
description: Lily wants to look at sunspots through Dad's binoculars. What should she do? Test 5 of lesson 1 «The Sun, our star» of the space course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 5 · The Sun, our star

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Lily wants to look at sunspots through Dad's binoculars. What should she do?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Lily · **What happens:** want, look, do

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This is test 5 of lesson 1 «The Sun, our star» of the space 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/space/1-the-sun-our-star/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Lily wants to look at sunspots through Dad's binoculars.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:1-the-sun-our-star:t5:1
# text = Lily wants to look at sunspots through Dad's binoculars.
1	Lily	Lily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	sunspots	sunspot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	through	through	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	Dad	Dad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	binoculars	binocular	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | present | Lily |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **look** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Lily *not said here* |  |  |  |  | through Dad's binoculars; at sunspots | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sunspot=Theme |

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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 should she do?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:1-the-sun-our-star:t5:2
# text = What should she do?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	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 | **do** | should | Lily |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Do it, but only for a few seconds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:1-the-sun-our-star:t5:o1:1
# text = Do it, but only for a few seconds
1	Do	do	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	seconds	second	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  | second |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Do it with sunglasses on

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:1-the-sun-our-star:t5:o2:1
# text = Do it with sunglasses on
1	Do	do	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	sunglasses	sunglasses	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  | with sunglasses | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Not do it; look only with proper solar filters or projection

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:1-the-sun-our-star:t5:o3:1
# text = Not do it; look only with proper solar filters or projection
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	do	do	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	only	only	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	solar	solar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	filters	filter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	projection	projection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **do** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 2 | **look** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with proper solar filters or projection | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Do it at midday, when the Sun is clearest and the spots are biggest

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:1-the-sun-our-star:t5:o4:1
# text = Do it at midday, when the Sun is clearest and the spots are biggest
1	Do	do	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	midday	midday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	10	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	clearest	clear	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	1	parataxis	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	spots	spot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  | midday |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | present | the Sun |  |  |  |  | clear *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | the spots |  |  |  |  | big *property* | tree rules |

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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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