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title: If you could watch from far outside, which picture would show the Mi… — The Milky Way · tree and pragmatics
description: If you could watch from far outside, which picture would show the Milky Way? Test 3 of lesson 23 «The Milky Way» 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 wrong.
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# Test 3 · The Milky Way

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If you could watch from far outside, which picture would show the Milky Way?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, picture · **What happens:** watch, show · **To what, where:** Milky Way

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This is test 3 of lesson 23 «The Milky Way» 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/23-the-milky-way/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:23-the-milky-way:t3:1
# text = If you could watch from far outside, which picture would show the Milky Way?
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
7	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	10	det	_	_
10	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Milky	milky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Way	Way	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** *a condition, not said to happen* | could | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **show** | would | which picture |  | the Milky Way |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent way=Recipient |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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A long straight line of stars

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:23-the-milky-way:t3:o1:1
# text = A long straight line of stars
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	straight	straight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A ring with nothing inside

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:23-the-milky-way:t3:o2:1
# text = A ring with nothing inside
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	nmod	_	_
5	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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A round ball of stars

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:23-the-milky-way:t3:o3:1
# text = A round ball of stars
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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A flat pinwheel with a bar in the middle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:23-the-milky-way:t3:o4:1
# text = A flat pinwheel with a bar in the middle
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	pinwheel	pinwheel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bar	bar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	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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