Exam question 3 · Galaxies and the Big Bang

Identify the person who demonstrated in 1923-1924 that the Andromeda nebula was a separate galaxy.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, person, Andromeda nebula · What happens: identify, demonstrate, be · To what, where: person, 1923-1924, separate galaxy

This is exam question 3 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 person	det
3	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 demonstrated	nsubj
5	demonstrated	demonstrate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 person	acl:relcl
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 1923-1924	case
7	1923-1924	1923-1924	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 demonstrated	obl
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 galaxy	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 nebula	det
10	Andromeda	Andromeda	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 nebula	compound
11	nebula	nebula	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 galaxy	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 galaxy	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 galaxy	det
14	separate	separate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 galaxy	amod
15	galaxy	galaxy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 demonstrated	advcl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the person		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent person=Theme
2	demonstrate	past	the person		1923-1924	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	the Andromeda nebula	a separate galaxy		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

Edwin Hubble

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Edwin	Edwin	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Hubble	Hubble	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Edwin	flat

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

Option 2

Arno Penzias

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Arno	Arno	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Penzias	Penzias	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Arno	flat

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

Option 3

Galileo Galilei

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Galileo	Galileo	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Galilei	Galilei	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Galileo	flat

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

Option 4

Isaac Newton

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Isaac	Isaac	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Newton	Newton	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Isaac	flat

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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