Exam question 1 · Mercury

Identify the planet which completes its orbit of the Sun in the shortest period.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, planet · What happens: identify, complete · To what, where: planet, orbit, shortest period

This is exam question 1 of lesson 3 «Mercury» 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 planet	det
3	planet	planet	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 completes	nsubj
5	completes	complete	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 planet	acl:relcl
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 orbit	nmod:poss
7	orbit	orbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 completes	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 Sun	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Sun	det
10	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 orbit	nmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 period	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 period	det
13	shortest	short	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 period	amod
14	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 completes	obl
15	.	.	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 planet					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent planet=Theme
2	complete	present	the planet	planet's orbit of the Sun		the shortest period			vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent orbit=Eventuality

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

Mars, in some six hundred and eighty-seven days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mars	Mars	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hundred	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 hundred	case
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 hundred	nsubj
5	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 hundred	compound
6	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Mars	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 eighty	cc
8	eighty	eighty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 hundred	conj
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 eighty	punct
10	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 days	nummod
11	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hundred	appos

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

Option 2

The Earth, in some three hundred and sixty-five days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Earth	det
2	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hundred	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 hundred	case
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 hundred	nsubj
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 hundred	compound
7	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 Earth	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sixty	cc
9	sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 hundred	conj
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 sixty	punct
11	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 days	nummod
12	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hundred	appos

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Mercury, in some eighty-eight Earth days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mercury	Mercury	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mercury	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	9 days	case
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 days	det
5	eighty	eighty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 eight	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 eighty	punct
7	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 days	nummod
8	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 days	compound
9	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Mercury	nmod

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

Option 4

Venus, in some two hundred and twenty-five days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Venus	Venus	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hundred	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 hundred	case
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 hundred	nsubj
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 hundred	compound
6	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Venus	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 twenty	cc
8	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 hundred	conj
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 twenty	punct
10	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 days	nummod
11	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hundred	appos

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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