Exam question 2 · The Milky Way
Ascertain the approximate distance of the Sun from the centre of the galaxy.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain · To what, where: approximate distance, centre
This is exam question 2 of lesson 23 «The Milky Way» 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 distance | det |
| 3 | approximate | approximate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 distance | amod |
| 4 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ascertain | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Sun | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Sun | det |
| 7 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 distance | nmod |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 centre | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 centre | det |
| 10 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 distance | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 galaxy | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 galaxy | det |
| 13 | galaxy | galaxy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 centre | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | 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 approximate distance of the Sun | the centre of the galaxy | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent distance=Topic |
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
About one hundred light years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 3 hundred | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 hundred | compound |
| 3 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 years | nummod |
| 4 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 years | compound |
| 5 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
About one hundred thousand light years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 4 thousand | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 hundred | compound |
| 3 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 thousand | compound |
| 4 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 years | nummod |
| 5 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 years | compound |
| 6 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
About twenty-six thousand light years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 4 six | advmod |
| 2 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 six | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 twenty | punct |
| 4 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 thousand | nummod |
| 5 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 years | nummod |
| 6 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 years | compound |
| 7 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
About one astronomical unit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 one | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 unit | nummod |
| 3 | astronomical | astronomical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 unit | amod |
| 4 | unit | unit | 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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