Exam question 3 · Uranus and Neptune

Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning the inclination of Uranus.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, response, established facts, Uranus · What happens: select, be, establish, concern, incline · To what, where: response, inclination

This is exam question 3 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 consistent	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 consistent	cop
6	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 response	acl:relcl
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 facts	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 facts	det
9	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 facts	amod
10	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 consistent	obl
11	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 facts	acl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 inclination	det
13	inclination	inclination	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 concerning	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 Uranus	case
15	Uranus	Uranus	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 inclination	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	is	present	the response		with the established facts; consistent property	tree rules
3	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
4	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here	the inclination of Uranus		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus inclination=Experiencer
5	incline		Uranus			nom inclination «cognition 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

Its axis is perfectly upright

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 axis	nmod:poss
2	axis	axis	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 upright	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 upright	cop
4	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	5 upright	advmod
5	upright	upright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

Its axis is tilted by precisely twenty-three and a half degrees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 axis	nmod:poss
2	axis	axis	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tilted	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tilted	aux:pass
4	tilted	tilt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	13 degrees	case
6	precisely	precisely	ADV	_	9 three	advmod
7	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 three	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 twenty	punct
9	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 degrees	nummod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 degrees	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 half	det
12	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	13 degrees	compound
13	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tilted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tilt	present · passive	three half degrees	Its axis					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Its axis is tilted by approximately ninety-eight degrees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 axis	nmod:poss
2	axis	axis	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tilted	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tilted	aux:pass
4	tilted	tilt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	10 degrees	case
6	approximately	approximately	ADV	_	9 eight	advmod
7	ninety	ninety	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 eight	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 ninety	punct
9	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 degrees	nummod
10	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tilted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tilt	present · passive	eight degrees	Its axis					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme

Option 4

It possesses no axis of rotation

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 possesses	nsubj
2	possesses	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 axis	det
4	axis	axis	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 possesses	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 rotation	case
6	rotation	rotation	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 axis	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	possess	present	It	no axis of rotation					vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot axis=Theme

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