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title: Mia in Melbourne sees two misty patches far from the Milky Way's ban… — The Milky Way · tree and pragmatics
description: Mia in Melbourne sees two misty patches far from the Milky Way's band. What are they likely to be? Test 8 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 8 · The Milky Way

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Mia in Melbourne sees two misty patches far from the Milky Way's band. What are they likely to be?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mia · **What happens:** see, be · **To what, where:** two misty patches, band

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This is test 8 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Mia in Melbourne sees two misty patches far from the Milky Way's band.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:23-the-milky-way:t8:1
# text = Mia in Melbourne sees two misty patches far from the Milky Way's band.
1	Mia	Mia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Melbourne	Melbourne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	sees	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
6	misty	misty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	patches	patch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Milky	milky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Way	Way	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	band	band	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | Mia in Melbourne | two misty patches |  | the Milky Way's band |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer patch=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 are they likely to be?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:23-the-milky-way:t8:2
# text = What are they likely to be?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	likely	likely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | likely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Two comets that never move

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:23-the-milky-way:t8:o1:1
# text = Two comets that never move
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	comets	comet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	move	move	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **move** | present | Two comets |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Dust on her telescope

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:23-the-milky-way:t8:o2:1
# text = Dust on her telescope
1	Dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	telescope	telescope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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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 Magellanic Clouds, small galaxies

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:23-the-milky-way:t8:o3:1
# text = The Magellanic Clouds, small galaxies
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Magellanic	Magellanic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Clouds	Cloud	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	galaxies	galaxy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Two clouds of smoke from fires

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:23-the-milky-way:t8:o4:1
# text = Two clouds of smoke from fires
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	fires	fire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cloud** |  |  | smoke |  | fires |  |  | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient from=place |

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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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