Exam question 3 · Exoplanets and the search for life

Identify the region around a star within which liquid water could exist on the surface of a planet.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, liquid water · What happens: identify, exist · To what, where: region, star, surface

This is exam question 3 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 region	det
3	region	region	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	around	around	ADP	_	6 star	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 star	det
6	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obl
7	within	within	ADP	_	8 which	case
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 exist	obl
9	liquid	liquid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 water	amod
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 exist	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 exist	aux
12	exist	exist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Identify	parataxis
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 surface	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 surface	det
15	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 exist	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 planet	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 planet	det
18	planet	planet	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 surface	nmod
19	.	.	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 region		a star			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent region=Theme
2	exist	could	liquid water			the surface of a planet			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on surface=Location

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

The habitable or Goldilocks zone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 zone	det
2	habitable	habitable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 zone	amod
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 Goldilocks	cc
4	Goldilocks	Goldilocks	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 habitable	conj
5	zone	zone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The asteroid belt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 belt	det
2	asteroid	asteroid	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 belt	compound
3	belt	belt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The corona

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 corona	det
2	corona	corona	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

The event horizon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 horizon	det
2	event	event	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 horizon	compound
3	horizon	horizon	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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