Exam question 3 · Pluto, the Kuiper belt, the Oort cloud and comets

State the interval at which Halley's Comet returns to the vicinity of the Sun.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, Comet · What happens: state, return · To what, where: interval

This is exam question 3 of lesson 15 «Pluto, the Kuiper belt, the Oort cloud and comets» 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 interval	det
3	interval	interval	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 returns	obl
6	Halley	Halley	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Comet	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Halley	case
8	Comet	Comet	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 returns	nsubj
9	returns	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 State	parataxis
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 vicinity	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 vicinity	det
12	vicinity	vicinity	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 returns	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 Sun.	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Sun.	det
15	Sun.	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 vicinity	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	imperative	you not said here	the interval					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent interval=Topic
2	return	present	Halley's Comet					to the vicinity of the Sun. result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to vicinity=Result

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

Approximately seventy-six years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	4 six	advmod
2	seventy	seventy	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 six	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 seventy	punct
4	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Approximately one thousand years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	3 thousand	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 thousand	compound
3	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Approximately one year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 one	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 year	nummod
3	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Approximately seven days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 seven	advmod
2	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 days	nummod
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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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