Exam question 2 · Space: from Sputnik to the Moon

Ascertain the identity of the first human being to journey into outer space.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, be · To what, where: identity, outer space

This is exam question 2 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 identity	det
3	identity	identity	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	10 journey	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 journey	det
6	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 journey	amod
7	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 journey	amod
8	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 journey	cop
9	to	to	PART	_	10 journey	mark
10	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 identity	nmod
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 space	case
12	outer	outer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 space	amod
13	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the identity		outer space			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent identity=Topic
2	is	gerund						of the first human journey	tree rules

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

Buzz Aldrin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Buzz	buzz	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Aldrin	Aldrin	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Buzz	appos

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

Option 2

Valentina Tereshkova

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Valentina	Valentina	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Tereshkova	Tereshkova	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Valentina	flat

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yuri Gagarin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yuri	Yuri	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Gagarin	Gagarin	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Yuri	flat

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

Option 4

Neil Armstrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neil	Neil	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Armstrong	compound
2	Armstrong	Armstrong	PROPN	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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