Exam question 1 · Saturn and its rings

Identify the principal constituent of the material composing the rings of Saturn.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, material · What happens: identify, compose · To what, where: principal constituent, rings

This is exam question 1 of lesson 12 «Saturn and its rings» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 constituent	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 constituent	amod
4	constituent	constituent	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 material	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 material	det
7	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 constituent	nmod
8	composing	compose	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 material	acl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 rings	det
10	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 composing	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Saturn	case
12	Saturn	Saturn	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 rings	nmod
13	.	.	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 principal constituent of the material					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent constituent=Theme
2	compose	gerund	the material not said here	the rings of Saturn					vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Result

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 right answer

Water ice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ice	compound
2	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Incandescent gas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Incandescent	incandescent	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gas	compound
2	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Molten iron

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Molten	molten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 iron	amod
2	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Solid granite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 granite	amod
2	granite	granite	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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