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title: At night the Moon shines brightly. Where does its light come from? — Light, shadows and colours · tree and pragmatics
description: At night the Moon shines brightly. Where does its light come from? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 53 «Light, shadows and colours» of the world 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 5 · ★ · Light, shadows and colours

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At night the Moon shines brightly. Where does its light come from?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Moon, light · **What happens:** shine, come, light

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 53 «Light, shadows and colours» of the world 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/world/53-light/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* At night the Moon shines brightly.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:53-light:t5:1
# text = At night the Moon shines brightly.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	shines	shine	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	brightly	brightly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shine** | present | the Moon |  |  |  | night | brightly *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |

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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:* Where does its light come from?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:53-light:t5:2
# text = Where does its light come from?
1	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	5	advmod	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present · do-support | Moon's light |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **light** |  | Moon |  |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Glowing rocks deep inside it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:53-light:t5:o1:1
# text = Glowing rocks deep inside it
1	Glowing	glow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	deep	deep	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
4	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glow** | gerund |  | rocks |  | it |  | deep *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent rock=Theme |

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

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Sunlight reflected off its surface

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:53-light:t5:o2:1
# text = Sunlight reflected off its surface
1	Sunlight	Sunlight	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	reflected	reflect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	off	off	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reflect off** | past | Sunlight | its surface |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Fire burning on the Moon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:53-light:t5:o3:1
# text = Fire burning on the Moon
1	Fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burn** | gerund | Fire *not said here* |  |  | the Moon |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on moon=Location |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Light from the Earth's cities

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:53-light:t5:o4:1
# text = Light from the Earth's cities
1	Light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	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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