Test 9 · ★★★ · I was wrong: changing your mind

A cartoon says Mercury is hottest because it's closest to the Sun. What's the correction?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: cartoon, Mercury, Sun. · What happens: say, be · To what, where: correction · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★★★ of lesson 35 «I was wrong: changing your mind» of the myths 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cartoon	det
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Mercury	Mercury	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 hottest	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 hottest	cop
6	hottest	hot	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 says	ccomp
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 closest	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 closest	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 closest	cop
10	closest	close	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 hottest	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 Sun.	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Sun.	det
13	Sun.	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 closest	obl
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 correction	nsubj
15	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 correction	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 correction	det
17	correction	correction	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Sun.	acl:relcl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a cartoon				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	Mercury			hot property	tree rules
3	is	present	cartoon		sunday	close property	tree rules
4	is a	present	the Sun.	the correction			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

All planets are exactly as hot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 planets	det
2	planets	planet	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hot	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 hot	cop
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	6 hot	advmod
5	as	as	ADP	_	6 hot	case
6	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	all planets					exactly, hot property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Venus is hottest; its thick atmosphere traps heat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Venus	Venus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 hottest	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hottest	cop
3	hottest	hot	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 traps	punct
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 atmosphere	nmod:poss
6	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 atmosphere	amod
7	atmosphere	atmosphere	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 traps	nsubj
8	traps	trap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hottest	conj
9	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 traps	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Venus					hot property	tree rules
2	trap	present	its thick atmosphere	heat					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Patient

Option 3

Mercury is hottest, because being closest decides it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mercury	Mercury	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 hottest	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hottest	cop
3	hottest	hot	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 decides	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 decides	mark
6	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 closest	cop
7	closest	close	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 decides	mark
8	decides	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hottest	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 decides	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Mercury		hot property	tree rules
2	is	gerund			close property	tree rules
3	decide	present	Mercury not said here	it		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 4

Earth is the hottest planet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 planet	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 planet	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 planet	det
4	hottest	hot	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 planet	amod
5	planet	planet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Earth	the hottest planet					tree rules

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