Exam question 4 · Earth from space

Ascertain the period of the year during which the Earth is nearest to the Sun.

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

This is exam question 4 of lesson 13 «Earth from space» of the myths 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 period	det
3	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 year	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 year	det
6	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 period	nmod
7	during	during	ADP	_	12 nearest	case
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 nearest	nsubj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Earth	det
10	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 nearest	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 nearest	cop
12	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	1 Ascertain	parataxis
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 Sun.	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Sun.	det
15	Sun.	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 nearest	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the period of the year					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent period=Topic
2	is	present					sunday	near property	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

The autumn equinox

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 equinox	det
2	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 equinox	compound
3	equinox	equinox	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The spring equinox

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 equinox	det
2	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 equinox	compound
3	equinox	equinox	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Early January

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 January	amod
2	January	January	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Late July

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 July	amod
2	July	July	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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