Test 10 · Mercury
In a game, Mercury is the biggest of the rocky planets. What should it be?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mercury, game · What happens: be · To what, where: game
This is test 10 of lesson 3 «Mercury» 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
Sentence 1: In a game, Mercury is the biggest of the rocky planets.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 game | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 game | det |
| 3 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 biggest | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 game | punct |
| 5 | Mercury | Mercury | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 biggest | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 biggest | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 biggest | det |
| 8 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 planets | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 planets | det |
| 11 | rocky | rocky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 planets | amod |
| 12 | planets | planet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 biggest | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 biggest | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Mercury | a game | of the rocky planets; big 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.
Sentence 2: What should it be?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 be | obj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 be | aux |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 be | nsubj |
| 4 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 be | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | should | game | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
The options
Option 1
The second biggest planet of them all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 planet | det |
| 2 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 planet | amod |
| 3 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 planet | amod |
| 4 | planet | planet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 planet | nmod |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 them | nmod:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The smallest of all the planets
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 smallest | det |
| 2 | smallest | small | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 planets | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 planets | det:predet |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 planets | det |
| 6 | planets | planet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 smallest | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The same size as the Earth, or nearly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 size | det |
| 2 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 size | amod |
| 3 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 Earth | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Earth | det |
| 6 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 size | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 nearly | punct |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 nearly | cc |
| 9 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 3 size | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Bigger than the giant planet Jupiter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 2 | than | than | ADP | _ | 5 planet | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 planet | det |
| 4 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 planet | amod |
| 5 | planet | planet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bigger | obl |
| 6 | Jupiter | Jupiter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 planet | 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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