Exam question 2 · Galaxies and the Big Bang

Ascertain the approximate age of the universe according to the Big Bang theory.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, accord · To what, where: approximate age

This is exam question 2 of lesson 24 «Galaxies and the Big Bang» 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 age	det
3	approximate	approximate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 age	amod
4	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 universe	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 universe	det
7	universe	universe	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 age	nmod
8	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 theory	case
9	to	to	ADP	_	8 according	fixed
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 theory	det
11	Big	Big	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Bang	compound
12	Bang	Bang	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 theory	compound
13	theory	theory	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 universe	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 age of the universe accord the Bang theory					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent age=Topic
2	accord	gerund							vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent

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 thirteen point eight million years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 thirteen	advmod
2	thirteen	thirteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 point	nummod
3	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 million	compound
5	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 years	nummod
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 point	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

About thirteen point eight billion years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 thirteen	advmod
2	thirteen	thirteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 point	nummod
3	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 billion	compound
5	billion	billion	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 years	nummod
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 point	nmod

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

Option 3

About four point six billion years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 four	advmod
2	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 point	nummod
3	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 billion	compound
5	billion	billion	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 years	nummod
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 point	nmod

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

Option 4

About six thousand years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	3 thousand	advmod
2	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 thousand	nummod
3	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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