Exam question 3 · The Milky Way

Identify the principal reason for which the Milky Way is no longer visible from most homes in Britain and the USA.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, Milky Way · What happens: identify, be · To what, where: principal reason, most homes

This is exam question 3 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 reason	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reason	amod
4	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 visible	obl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Way	det
8	Milky	milky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Way	amod
9	Way	Way	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 visible	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 visible	cop
11	no	no	ADV	_	12 longer	advmod
12	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 visible	advmod
13	visible	visible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reason	acl
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 homes	case
15	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 homes	amod
16	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 visible	obl
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 Britain	case
18	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 homes	nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 USA	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 USA	det
21	USA	USA	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Britain	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal reason					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
2	is	present	the Milky Way			most homes in Britain and the USA		for the principal reason; long, visible property	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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Light pollution

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pollution	compound
2	pollution	pollution	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The recession of the galaxy from the Earth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 recession	det
2	recession	recession	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 galaxy	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 galaxy	det
5	galaxy	galaxy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 recession	nmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 Earth	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Earth	det
8	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 galaxy	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	recede		the galaxy from the Earth						nom recession «state intransitive»: of=agent

Option 3

Atmospheric dust from volcanoes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Atmospheric	atmospheric	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dust	compound
2	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 volcanoes	case
4	volcanoes	volcano	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 dust	nmod

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

Option 4

The excessive brightness of the Moon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brightness	det
2	excessive	excessive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 brightness	amod
3	brightness	brightness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 Moon	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Moon	det
6	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 brightness	nmod

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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