Exam question 1 · Meteors, meteorites and shooting stars

Identify the designation applied to a body of extraterrestrial rock which has reached the surface of the Earth.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, extraterrestrial rock · What happens: identify, apply, reach · To what, where: designation, surface

This is exam question 1 of lesson 16 «Meteors, meteorites and shooting stars» 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	3 designation	det
3	designation	designation	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	applied	apply	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 designation	acl
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 body	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 body	det
7	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 applied	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 rock	case
9	extraterrestrial	extraterrestrial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 rock	amod
10	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 body	nmod
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 reached	nsubj
12	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 reached	aux
13	reached	reach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 rock	acl:relcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 surface	det
15	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 reached	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 Earth	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Earth	det
18	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 surface	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the designation		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent designation=Theme
2	apply	participle		the designation not said here	to a body of extraterrestrial rock	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	reach	present · perfect	extraterrestrial rock	the surface of the Earth		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent surface=Theme

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

A comet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 comet	det
2	comet	comet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A meteorite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 meteorite	det
2	meteorite	meteorite	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

A meteoroid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 meteoroid	det
2	meteoroid	meteoroid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A meteor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 meteor	det
2	meteor	meteor	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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