Test 10 · ★ · Uranus and Neptune
Neptune's winds are about 2,000 kilometres per hour. A fast passenger jet flies about 900. The winds are
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: winds, Neptune, fast passenger jet · What happens: be, wind, fly · To what, where: 2,000 kilometres, 900
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 14 «Uranus and Neptune» 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
Sentence 1: Neptune's winds are about 2,000 kilometres per hour.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Neptune | Neptune | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 winds | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Neptune | case |
| 3 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 kilometres | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 kilometres | cop |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 2,000 | advmod |
| 6 | 2,000 | 2000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 kilometres | nummod |
| 7 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | per | per | ADP | _ | 9 hour | case |
| 9 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kilometres | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 kilometres | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Neptune's winds | 2,000 kilometres | hour | tree rules | |||
| 2 | wind | Neptune | nom wind «phenomenon transitive»: poss=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.
Sentence 2: A fast passenger jet flies about 900.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 jet | det |
| 2 | fast | fast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 jet | amod |
| 3 | passenger | passenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 jet | compound |
| 4 | jet | jet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flies | nsubj |
| 5 | flies | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 900 | advmod |
| 7 | 900 | 900 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 flies | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 flies | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | present | a fast passenger jet | 900 | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location 900=Theme |
Sentence 3: The winds are
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 winds | det |
| 2 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 are | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | the winds | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Ten times slower than the jet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 times | nummod |
| 2 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 slower | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | slower | slow | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | than | than | ADP | _ | 6 jet | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 jet | det |
| 6 | jet | jet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 slower | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
More than twice as fast as the jet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | More | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 fast | advmod |
| 2 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 5 fast | mark |
| 3 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 fast | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 fast | advmod |
| 5 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 jet | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 jet | det |
| 8 | jet | jet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fast | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
About half as fast as a passenger jet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 half | advmod |
| 2 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 4 fast | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | ADV | _ | 4 fast | advmod |
| 4 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 jet | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 jet | det |
| 7 | passenger | passenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 jet | compound |
| 8 | jet | jet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fast | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Exactly as fast as the jet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 3 fast | advmod |
| 2 | as | as | ADV | _ | 3 fast | advmod |
| 3 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 jet | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 jet | det |
| 6 | jet | jet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fast | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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