Test 5 · ★ · How the Solar System was born

Which evidence from meteorites helps date the Solar System?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: evidence · What happens: help · To what, where: date

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 2 «How the Solar System was born» of the space course of Mova's primary school. 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 evidence	det
2	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 helps	nsubj
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 meteorites	case
4	meteorites	meteorite	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 evidence	nmod
5	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 helps	obj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 System	det
8	Solar	Solar	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 System	compound
9	System	System	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 helps	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 helps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	which evidence from meteorites	date					tree rules

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

They carry written messages from the past

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 carry	nsubj
2	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 messages	amod
4	messages	message	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 carry	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 past	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 past	det
7	past	past	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	present	They	written messages		the past			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent message=Theme from past=Initial_Location
2	write	participle							vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

They are always still warm when they land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 warm	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 warm	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 warm	advmod
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 warm	advmod
5	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 land	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 land	nsubj
8	land	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 warm	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They				still	always, warm property	tree rules
2	land	present	they						vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

They have tree rings inside them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rings	compound
4	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
5	inside	inside	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 have	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	They	tree rings				inside rings = ring	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Their oldest solid bits contain radioactive atoms that act like a clock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 bits	nmod:poss
2	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 bits	amod
3	solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bits	amod
4	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 contain	nsubj
5	contain	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	radioactive	radioactive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 atoms	amod
7	atoms	atom	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 contain	obj
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 act	nsubj
9	act	act	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 atoms	acl:relcl
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 clock	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 clock	det
12	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 act	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	contain	present	Their oldest solid bits	radioactive atoms					vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot atom=Theme
2	act	present	radioactive atoms					like a clock	vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent like clock=Attribute

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