Test 11 · ★ · Saturn and its rings
Saturn's winds reach about 1,800 kilometres per hour. Compared with the strongest hurricanes on Earth, they are
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: winds, Saturn · What happens: reach, wind, compare, be · To what, where: 1,800 kilometres
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 12 «Saturn and its rings» of the space 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
Sentence 1: Saturn's winds reach about 1,800 kilometres per hour.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saturn | Saturn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 winds | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Saturn | case |
| 3 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 reach | nsubj |
| 4 | reach | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 1,800 | advmod |
| 6 | 1,800 | 1,800 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 kilometres | nummod |
| 7 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 reach | obj |
| 8 | per | per | ADP | _ | 9 hour | case |
| 9 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kilometres | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reach | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | present | Saturn's winds | 1,800 kilometres | per hour | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent kilometre=Theme | |||
| 2 | wind | Saturn | nom wind «phenomenon transitive»: poss=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.
Sentence 2: Compared with the strongest hurricanes on Earth, they are
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Compared | compare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 are | advcl |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 hurricanes | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hurricanes | det |
| 4 | strongest | strong | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 hurricanes | amod |
| 5 | hurricanes | hurricane | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Compared | obl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 Earth | case |
| 7 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 hurricanes | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Compared | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 are | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compare | participle | winds = wind not said here | with the strongest hurricanes on Earth | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with hurricane=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | does | present | winds = wind | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Exactly twice as slow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 2 twice | advmod |
| 2 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 slow | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | ADV | _ | 4 slow | advmod |
| 4 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
About the same
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 3 same | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 same | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Many times faster
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 times | amod |
| 2 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 faster | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Much slower
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Much | much | ADV | _ | 2 slower | advmod |
| 2 | slower | slow | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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