Exam question 2 · How we know: measuring the sky
Identify the element first discovered in the spectrum of the Sun in 1868.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, element · What happens: identify, discover · To what, where: spectrum
This is exam question 2 of lesson 28 «How we know: measuring the sky» 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 element | det |
| 3 | element | element | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 discovered | nsubj |
| 4 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 discovered | advmod |
| 5 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Identify | parataxis |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 spectrum | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 spectrum | det |
| 8 | spectrum | spectrum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 discovered | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Sun | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Sun | det |
| 11 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 spectrum | nmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 1868 | case |
| 13 | 1868 | 1868 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 discovered | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Identify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | imperative | you not said here | vn empathize-88.2 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | discover | past | the element | the spectrum of the Sun | in 1868; first property | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: 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 · ✓ the right answer
Helium
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Helium | helium | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Iron
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Hydrogen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hydrogen | hydrogen | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Oxygen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oxygen | oxygen | 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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