Exam question 4 · Meteors, meteorites and shooting stars
Ascertain the parent body of the meteor shower designated the Geminids.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, meteor shower · What happens: ascertain, designate · To what, where: parent body, Geminids
This is exam question 4 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 | Ascertain | ascertain | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 body | det |
| 3 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 body | compound |
| 4 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ascertain | obj |
| 5 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 9 designated | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 shower | det |
| 7 | meteor | meteor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shower | compound |
| 8 | shower | shower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 designated | nsubj |
| 9 | designated | designate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 body | acl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Geminids | det |
| 11 | Geminids | Geminid | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 designated | obj |
| 12 | . | . | 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 parent body | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Topic | ||||
| 2 | designate | past | the meteor shower | the Geminids | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent geminid=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
The planet Mars
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Mars | det |
| 2 | planet | planet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Mars | compound |
| 3 | Mars | Mars | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The asteroid 3200 Phaethon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 asteroid | det |
| 2 | asteroid | asteroid | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | 3200 | 3200 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 asteroid | list |
| 4 | Phaethon | Phaethon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 3200 | nmod:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The comet Swift-Tuttle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 comet | det |
| 2 | comet | comet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | Swift | Swift | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 comet | appos |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Tuttle | punct |
| 5 | Tuttle | Tuttle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Swift | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The comet Halley, which comes every 76 years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 comet | det |
| 2 | comet | comet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 comes | nsubj |
| 3 | Halley | Halley | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 comet | appos |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 comes | punct |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 comes | nsubj |
| 6 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 years | det |
| 8 | 76 | 76 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 years | nummod |
| 9 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 comes | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | the comet | year | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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