Exam question 3 · How stars die

State the name of the person credited with the discovery of pulsars in the year nineteen hundred and sixty-seven.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: state, credit, name, discover · To what, where: name, person, pulsars

This is exam question 3 of lesson 19 «How stars die» 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 name	det
3	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 person	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 person	det
6	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 name	nmod
7	credited	credit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 person	acl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 discovery	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 discovery	det
10	discovery	discovery	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 credited	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 pulsars	case
12	pulsars	pulsar	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 discovery	nmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 year	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 year	det
15	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pulsars	nmod
16	nineteen	nineteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 hundred	compound
17	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 year	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 seven	cc
19	sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 seven	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 sixty	punct
21	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 hundred	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	imperative	you not said here	the name of the person		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent name=Topic
2	credit	participle		the person not said here	with the discovery of pulsars in the year nineteen hundred	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent with discovery=Theme
3	name			the person		nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient
4	discover			pulsars in the year nineteen hundred		nom discovery «act transitive»: of=patient

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

Galileo Galilei

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Galileo	Galileo	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Galilei	Galilei	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Galileo	flat

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

Option 2

William Herschel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	William	William	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Herschel	Herschel	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 William	flat

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jocelyn	Jocelyn	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Bell	Bell	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Jocelyn	flat
3	Burnell	Burnell	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Jocelyn	flat

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

Option 4

Clyde Tombaugh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Clyde	Clyde	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Tombaugh	Tombaugh	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Clyde	flat

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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