Exam question 1 · The age of science

Identify the astronomer who in fifteen hundred and forty-three advanced the proposition that the Earth revolves about the Sun.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, astronomer, Earth · What happens: identify, advance, revolve · To what, where: astronomer, proposition, fifteen hundred

This is exam question 1 of lesson 29 «The age of science» of the history course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 astronomer	det
3	astronomer	astronomer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 advanced	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 hundred	case
6	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 hundred	compound
7	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 advanced	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 three	cc
9	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 three	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 forty	punct
11	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 hundred	conj
12	advanced	advance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 astronomer	acl:relcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 proposition	det
14	proposition	proposition	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 advanced	obj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 revolves	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Earth	det
17	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 revolves	nsubj
18	revolves	revolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 advanced	advcl
19	about	about	ADP	_	21 Sun.	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Sun.	det
21	Sun.	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 revolves	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the astronomer			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent astronomer=Theme
2	advance	past	the astronomer	the proposition	fifteen hundred		vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer proposition=Patient
3	revolve	present	the Earth			sunday	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

William Harvey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	William	William	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Harvey	Harvey	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 William	flat

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nicolaus Copernicus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nicolaus	Nicolaus	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Copernicus	Copernicus	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Nicolaus	flat

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

Option 3

Isaac Newton

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Isaac	Isaac	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Newton	Newton	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Isaac	flat

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

Option 4

Charles Darwin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Charles	Charles	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Darwin	Darwin	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Charles	flat

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

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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