Test 11 · Mercury

Which is true: Mercury is heavier than Titan, or wider than Titan?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mercury · What happens: be

This is test 11 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 heavier	punct
5	Mercury	Mercury	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 heavier	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 heavier	cop
7	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 true	parataxis
8	than	than	ADP	_	9 Titan	case
9	Titan	Titan	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 heavier	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wider	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 wider	cc
12	wider	wide	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 heavier	conj
13	than	than	ADP	_	14 Titan	case
14	Titan	Titan	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 wider	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present		true property	tree rules
2	is	present	Mercury	than Titan; heavy property	tree rules
3	be		Mercury not said here	than Titan	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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Heavier, but not wider

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wider	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 wider	cc
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 wider	advmod
5	wider	wide	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Heavier	conj

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

Option 2

Wider, but not heavier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wider	wide	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 heavier	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 heavier	cc
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 heavier	advmod
5	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Wider	advcl

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

Option 3

Neither heavier nor wider

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	ADV	_	2 heavier	advmod
2	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
3	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	4 wider	cc
4	wider	wide	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 heavier	conj

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

Option 4

Both heavier and wider

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	CCONJ	_	2 heavier	cc:preconj
2	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 wider	cc
4	wider	wide	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 heavier	conj

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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