Exam question 4 · Saturn's moons

State the distinction attributed to the descent of the Huygens probe in the year two thousand and five.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Huygens probe · What happens: state, attribute, descend · To what, where: distinction

This is exam question 4 of lesson 13 «Saturn's moons» 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	State	state	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 distinction	det
3	distinction	distinction	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	obj
4	attributed	attribute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 distinction	acl
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 descent	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 descent	det
7	descent	descent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 attributed	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 probe	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 probe	det
10	Huygens	Huygens	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 probe	compound
11	probe	probe	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 descent	nmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 year	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 year	det
14	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 thousand	obl
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 thousand	compound
16	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 probe	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 five	cc
18	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 thousand	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	imperative	you not said here	the distinction		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent distinction=Topic
2	attribute	participle		the distinction not said here	to the descent of the Huygens probe two thousand	tree rules
3	descend		the Huygens probe two thousand			nom descent «event intransitive»: of=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It was the first landing upon Mars

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	5 landing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 landing	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 landing	det
4	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 landing	amod
5	landing	landing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 Mars	case
7	Mars	Mars	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 landing	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	the first landing				upon Mars	tree rules

Option 2

It was accomplished by a human crew

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 accomplished	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 accomplished	aux:pass
3	accomplished	accomplish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	7 crew	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 crew	det
6	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 crew	amod
7	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 accomplished	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accomplish	past · passive	a human crew	It					vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It constitutes the most distant landing ever accomplished

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 constitutes	nsubj
2	constitutes	constitute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 landing	det
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 distant	advmod
5	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 landing	amod
6	landing	landing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 constitutes	obj
7	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	8 accomplished	advmod
8	accomplished	accomplish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 landing	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	constitute	present	It	the distant landing					vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme landing=Pivot
2	accomplish	participle		the distant landing not said here			ever		vn complete-55.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It constitutes the first landing upon the Moon

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 constitutes	nsubj
2	constitutes	constitute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 landing	det
4	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 landing	amod
5	landing	landing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 constitutes	obj
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 Moon	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Moon	det
8	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 landing	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	constitute	present	It	the first landing				upon the Moon	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme landing=Pivot

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