Test 8 · ★ · Saturn and its rings

Which is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 8 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

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

Saturn's rings are thicker than the Earth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Saturn	Saturn	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 rings	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Saturn	case
3	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 thicker	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 thicker	cop
5	thicker	thick	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	than	than	ADP	_	8 Earth	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Earth	det
8	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 thicker	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Saturn's rings					than the Earth; thick property	tree rules

Option 2

Saturn is the biggest planet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Saturn	Saturn	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 planet	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 planet	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 planet	det
4	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 planet	amod
5	planet	planet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Saturn	the biggest planet					tree rules

Option 3

Only Saturn has rings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 has	advmod
2	Saturn	Saturn	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Saturn	rings					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Saturn has the biggest and brightest rings, but other giants have rings too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Saturn	Saturn	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 rings	det
4	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 rings	amod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 brightest	cc
6	brightest	bright	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 rings	amod
7	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 have	cc
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 giants	amod
11	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 have	nsubj
12	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 has	parataxis
13	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 have	obj
14	too	too	ADV	_	12 have	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Saturn	the biggest brightest rings					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Patient
2	have	present	other giants	rings					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Patient

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