Exam question 4 · Uranus and Neptune

Ascertain the number of spacecraft which have hitherto visited the planets Uranus and Neptune.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, visit · To what, where: number, spacecraft

This is exam question 4 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 number	det
3	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 spacecraft	case
5	spacecraft	spacecraft	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 number	nmod
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 visited	nsubj:pass
7	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 visited	aux
8	hitherto	hitherto	ADV	_	9 visited	advmod
9	visited	visit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 spacecraft	acl:relcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 planets	det
11	planets	planet	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 visited	obj
12	Uranus	Uranus	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 planets	appos
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 Neptune	cc
14	Neptune	Neptune	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Uranus	conj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the number of spacecraft					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic
2	visit	present · perfect · passive		spacecraft				hitherto 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 · ✓ the right answer

One, namely Voyager 2

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Voyager	punct
3	namely	namely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Voyager	amod
4	Voyager	Voyager	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 One	appos
5	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 Voyager	flat

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

Option 2

None whatsoever, as both are too distant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	None	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	root	root
2	whatsoever	whatsoever	ADV	_	1 None	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 distant	punct
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 distant	mark
5	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	8 distant	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 distant	cop
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 distant	advmod
8	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 None	conj

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

Option 3

Four, namely the Voyager and Pioneer craft

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Voyager	punct
3	namely	namely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Voyager	amod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Voyager	det
5	Voyager	Voyager	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Four	appos
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 Pioneer	cc
7	Pioneer	Pioneer	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Voyager	conj
8	craft	craft	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Voyager	appos

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

Option 4

Twelve, launched by several nations

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 launched	punct
3	launched	launch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Twelve	acl
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 nations	case
5	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 nations	amod
6	nations	nation	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 launched	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	launch	participle						by several nations	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent by nation=Destination

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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