Exam question 1 · Constellations and the night sky in winter and spring
State the number of constellations officially recognised by astronomers since the period nineteen hundred and twenty-two to nineteen hundred and thirty.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: state, recognise · To what, where: number, constellations
This is exam question 1 of lesson 20 «Constellations and the night sky in winter and spring» 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 number | det |
| 3 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 State | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 constellations | case |
| 5 | constellations | constellation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 number | nmod |
| 6 | officially | officially | ADV | _ | 7 recognised | advmod |
| 7 | recognised | recognise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 constellations | acl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 astronomers | case |
| 9 | astronomers | astronomer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 recognised | obl:agent |
| 10 | since | since | ADP | _ | 12 period | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 period | det |
| 12 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 State | obl |
| 13 | nineteen | nineteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 hundred | compound |
| 14 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 State | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 hundred | cc |
| 16 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 hundred | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 twenty | punct |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 twenty | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 nineteen | case |
| 20 | nineteen | nineteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 twenty | nmod |
| 21 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 hundred | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 thirty | cc |
| 23 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 hundred | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 State | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | state speech: other | imperative | you not said here | the number of constellations | since the period | nineteen hundred obl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent number=Topic | ||
| 2 | recognise | participle | constellations not said here | officially property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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
One hundred
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 One | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Eight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Eighty-eight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eighty | eighty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 eight | punct |
| 3 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Eighty | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Twelve
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 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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