Exam question 3 · Jupiter

Ascertain the period of rotation of Jupiter about its axis.

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

This is exam question 3 of lesson 10 «Jupiter» of the space 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	_	5 rotation	case
5	rotation	rotation	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 period	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Jupiter	case
7	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 rotation	nmod
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 axis	case
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 axis	nmod:poss
10	axis	axis	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 period	nmod
11	.	.	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 period of rotation of Jupiter				about rotation's axis	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent period=Topic
2	rotate		Jupiter						nom rotation «act intransitive»: of=agent

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

Approximately twelve years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 twelve	advmod
2	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Approximately two hundred and forty-three days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	3 hundred	advmod
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 hundred	compound
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 days	nummod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 forty	cc
5	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 hundred	conj
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 forty	punct
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 days	nummod
8	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Somewhat less than ten hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Somewhat	somewhat	ADV	_	2 less	advmod
2	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	4 ten	advmod
3	than	than	ADP	_	2 less	fixed
4	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 hours	nummod
5	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Approximately twenty-four hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	4 four	advmod
2	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 four	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 twenty	punct
4	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 hours	nummod
5	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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