Exam question 1 · Exoplanets and the search for life

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the term exoplanet?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, characteris · To what, where: term exoplanet

This is exam question 1 of lesson 26 «Exoplanets and the search for life» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 characterises	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 statements	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 statements	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 statements	amod
5	statements	statement	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 characterises	obl
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 accurately	advmod
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	8 characterises	advmod
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 exoplanet	det
10	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 exoplanet	compound
11	exoplanet	exoplanet	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present		the term exoplanet				of the following statements; accurately 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

A planet expelled from the solar system

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 planet	det
2	planet	planet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	expelled	expel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 planet	acl
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 system	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 system	det
6	solar	solar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 system	amod
7	system	system	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 expelled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	expel	participle		a planet not said here		the solar system			vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from system=Source

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

A star without any planets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 star	det
2	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	without	without	ADP	_	5 planets	case
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	5 planets	det
5	planets	planet	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 star	nmod

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

Option 3

A moon orbiting a giant planet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 moon	det
2	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 orbiting	nsubj
3	orbiting	orbit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 planet	det
5	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 planet	amod
6	planet	planet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 orbiting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	orbit	gerund	a moon	a giant planet					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A planet orbiting a star other than the Sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 planet	det
2	planet	planet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	orbiting	orbit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 planet	acl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 star	det
5	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 orbiting	obj
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 star	amod
7	than	than	ADP	_	9 Sun	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Sun	det
9	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 other	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	orbit	gerund	a planet not said here	a star					tree rules

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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