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title: Your nan says she could see the Milky Way from her garden as a girl… — The Milky Way · tree and pragmatics
description: Your nan says she could see the Milky Way from her garden as a girl but you can't today. Most likely why? Test 9 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 9 · The Milky Way

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Your nan says she could see the Milky Way from her garden as a girl but you can't today. Most likely why?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** nan · **What happens:** say, see · **To what, where:** Milky Way, garden · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 9 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Your nan says she could see the Milky Way from her garden as a girl but you can't today.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:23-the-milky-way:t9:1
# text = Your nan says she could see the Milky Way from her garden as a girl but you can't today.
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	nan	nan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Milky	milky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Way	Way	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
20	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Your nan |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **see** | could | nan | the Milky Way |  | nan's garden |  | as a girl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus as girl=Attribute |

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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:* Most likely why?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:23-the-milky-way:t9:2
# text = Most likely why?
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	likely	likely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Stars were brighter in the past

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:23-the-milky-way:t9:o1:1
# text = Stars were brighter in the past
1	Stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	brighter	bright	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	past	past	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Stars |  |  | the past |  | bright *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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More light pollution now

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:23-the-milky-way:t9:o2:1
# text = More light pollution now
1	More	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
2	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	pollution	pollution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The Milky Way has moved away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:23-the-milky-way:t9:o3:1
# text = The Milky Way has moved away
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Milky	milky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Way	Way	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	moved	move	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move away** | present · perfect | the Milky Way |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Her eyes were special

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:23-the-milky-way:t9:o4:1
# text = Her eyes were special
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Her eyes |  |  |  |  | special *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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