Exam question 3 · Saturn and its rings

Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning the thickness of Saturn's main rings.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, response, established facts · What happens: select, be, establish, concern · To what, where: response, thickness

This is exam question 3 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 consistent	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 consistent	cop
6	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 response	acl:relcl
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 facts	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 facts	det
9	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 facts	amod
10	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 consistent	obl
11	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 facts	acl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 thickness	det
13	thickness	thickness	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 concerning	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	18 rings	case
15	Saturn	Saturn	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 rings	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 Saturn	case
17	main	main	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 rings	amod
18	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 thickness	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	is	present	the response		with the established facts; consistent property	tree rules
3	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
4	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here	the thickness of Saturn's main rings		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus thickness=Experiencer

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

It exceeds the diameter of the Earth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 exceeds	nsubj
2	exceeds	exceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 diameter	det
4	diameter	diameter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 exceeds	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 Earth	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Earth	det
7	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 diameter	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exceed	present	It	the diameter of the Earth					vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot diameter=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It is typically in the order of ten metres

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 order	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 order	cop
3	typically	typically	ADV	_	6 order	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 order	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 order	det
6	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 metres	case
8	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 metres	nummod
9	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 order	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It			the order		of ten metres; typically property	tree rules

Option 3

It is in excess of ten thousand kilometres

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 excess	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 excess	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 excess	case
4	excess	excess	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 kilometres	case
6	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 thousand	compound
7	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 kilometres	nummod
8	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 excess	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It			excess		of thousand kilometres	tree rules

Option 4

It is equal to their breadth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 equal	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 equal	cop
3	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 breadth	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 breadth	nmod:poss
6	breadth	breadth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 equal	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					to their breadth; equal property	tree rules

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