Exam question 1 · Space: from Sputnik to the Moon

Identify the first artificial satellite placed in orbit about the Earth.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, place · To what, where: first artificial satellite, orbit

This is exam question 1 of lesson 35 «Space: from Sputnik to the Moon» 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	5 satellite	det
3	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 satellite	amod
4	artificial	artificial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 satellite	amod
5	satellite	satellite	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
6	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 satellite	acl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 orbit	case
8	orbit	orbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 placed	obl
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 Earth	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Earth	det
11	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 orbit	nmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the first artificial satellite					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent satellite=Theme
2	place	participle		the first artificial satellite not said here		orbit about the Earth			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in orbit=Destination

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

The International Space Station

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Station	det
2	International	International	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Station	compound
3	Space	Space	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Station	compound
4	Station	Station	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Apollo 11

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Apollo	Apollo	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	11	11	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 Apollo	flat

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

Option 3

Laika

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Laika	Laika	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Sputnik

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sputnik	sputnik	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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