Exam question 1 · Uranus and Neptune

Identify the principal reason for which the planets Uranus and Neptune present a blue colouration.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, planets · What happens: identify, present · To what, where: principal reason, blue colouration

This is exam question 1 of lesson 14 «Uranus and Neptune» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 reason	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reason	amod
4	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 present	obl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 planets	det
8	planets	planet	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 present	nsubj
9	Uranus	Uranus	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 planets	appos
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 Neptune	cc
11	Neptune	Neptune	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Uranus	conj
12	present	present	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 reason	acl:relcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 colouration	det
14	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 colouration	amod
15	colouration	colouration	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 present	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal reason					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
2	present	present	the planets	a blue colouration				for the principal reason	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent colouration=Theme for which=Recipient

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

The reflection of sunlight from vast oceans of liquid water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 reflection	det
2	reflection	reflection	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 sunlight	case
4	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reflection	nmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 oceans	case
6	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 oceans	amod
7	oceans	ocean	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 reflection	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 water	case
9	liquid	liquid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 water	amod
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 oceans	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The absorption of red light by atmospheric methane

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 absorption	det
2	absorption	absorption	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 light	case
4	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 light	amod
5	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 absorption	nmod
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 methane	case
7	atmospheric	atmospheric	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 methane	compound
8	methane	methane	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 absorption	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	absorb		atmospheric methane	red light					nom absorption «process transitive»: of=patient by=agent

Option 3

Their exceptionally high surface temperatures

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 temperatures	nmod:poss
2	exceptionally	exceptionally	ADV	_	3 high	advmod
3	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 temperatures	amod
4	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 temperatures	compound
5	temperatures	temperature	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

The reflection of light from the Earth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 reflection	det
2	reflection	reflection	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 light	case
4	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reflection	nmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 Earth	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Earth	det
7	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 reflection	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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