Exam question 4 · Saturn and its rings

Ascertain the manner in which the Cassini mission was concluded in the year two thousand and seventeen.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, conclude · To what, where: manner, Cassini mission

This is exam question 4 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 manner	det
3	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 concluded	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mission	det
7	Cassini	Cassini	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 mission	compound
8	mission	mission	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 concluded	nsubj:pass
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 concluded	aux:pass
10	concluded	conclude	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 manner	acl:relcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 year	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 year	det
13	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 concluded	obl
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 thousand	compound
15	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 concluded	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 seventeen	cc
17	seventeen	seventeen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 thousand	conj
18	.	.	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 manner					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manner=Topic
2	conclude	past · passive		the Cassini mission		the manner	year	two thousand obl	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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

By departure from the Solar System altogether

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	2 departure	case
2	departure	departure	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	6 System	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 System	det
5	Solar	Solar	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 System	compound
6	System	System	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 departure	nmod
7	altogether	altogether	ADV	_	2 departure	advmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

By a deliberate descent into Saturn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	4 descent	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 descent	det
3	deliberate	deliberate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 descent	amod
4	descent	descent	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 Saturn	case
6	Saturn	Saturn	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 descent	nmod

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

Option 3

By a landing upon the rings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 landing	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 landing	det
3	landing	landing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 rings	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rings	det
6	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 landing	nmod

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

Option 4

By a return to the Earth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 return	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 return	det
3	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 Earth	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Earth	det
6	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 return	nmod

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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