Test 7 · ★ · Exoplanets and the search for life

a hot Jupiter's year is like 4 days?? how

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: year · What happens: be

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 26 «Exoplanets and the search for life» of the space course of Mova's primary school. 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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 Jupiter	det
2	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Jupiter	amod
3	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 year	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Jupiter	case
5	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 days	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 days	cop
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 days	case
8	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 days	nummod
9	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
10	??	??	PUNCT	_	9 days	punct
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 days	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a hot Jupiter's year				like 4 days		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

It spins very fast on its axis, so each year is only a few days

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 spins	nsubj
2	spins	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 fast	advmod
4	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 spins	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 axis	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 axis	nmod:poss
7	axis	axis	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spins	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 days	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	16 days	advmod
10	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	11 year	det
11	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 days	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 days	cop
13	only	only	ADV	_	16 days	advmod
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 days	det
15	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 days	amod
16	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 spins	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spin	present	It			its axis		fast property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on axis=Trajectory
2	is a	present	each year	a few days					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It orbits very close to its star, so the trip round is short

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 orbits	nsubj
2	orbits	orbit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 close	advmod
4	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 orbits	xcomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 star	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 star	nmod:poss
7	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 close	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 short	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	14 short	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 round	det
11	trip	trip	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 round	compound
12	round	round	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 short	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 short	cop
14	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 orbits	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	orbit	present	It					close property	vn orbit-51.9.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	the trip round					short property	tree rules

Option 3

Its star moves round it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 star	nmod:poss
2	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 moves	nsubj
3	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	round	round	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 moves	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	present	Its star			it			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme round it=Trajectory

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Days are longer there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 there	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 there	cop
3	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 there	advmod
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Days					long, there property	tree rules

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