Exam question 3 · Meteors, meteorites and shooting stars

State the term employed to denote the point in the sky from which the meteors of a shower appear to originate.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: term, meteors · What happens: employ, denote, appear, originate · To what, where: point, sky

This is exam question 3 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	State	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 employed	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 term	det
3	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 employed	nsubj
4	employed	employ	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 denote	mark
6	denote	denote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 employed	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 point	det
8	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 denote	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 sky	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sky	det
11	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 denote	obl
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 which	case
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 appear	obl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 meteors	det
15	meteors	meteor	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 appear	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 shower	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 shower	det
18	shower	shower	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 meteors	nmod
19	appear	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 sky	acl:relcl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 originate	mark
21	originate	originate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 appear	xcomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 employed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	employ	past	the term				vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
2	denote	to-infinitive	the term not said here	the point		in the sky	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot point=Theme in sky=Attribute
3	appear	present	the meteors of a shower		the sky		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	originate	to-infinitive	the meteors of a shower not said here				vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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

The zenith

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 zenith	det
2	zenith	zenith	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The horizon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 horizon	det
2	horizon	horizon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The equinox

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 equinox	det
2	equinox	equinox	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The radiant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 radiant	det
2	radiant	radiant	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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