Test 2 · Mercury

Why does Mercury get so cold at night when it is so close to the Sun?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mercury, it · What happens: get, be

This is test 2 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 get	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
3	Mercury	Mercury	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 cold	advmod
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 get	xcomp
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 night	case
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obl
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 close	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 close	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 close	cop
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 close	advmod
13	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 get	advcl
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 Sun	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Sun	det
16	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 close	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present · do-support	Mercury				night	cold property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	present	it					to the Sun; close 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.

The options

Option 1

Its iron core sucks the heat away

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	3 core	nmod:poss
2	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 core	compound
3	core	core	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sucks	nsubj
4	sucks	suck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 heat	det
6	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sucks	obj
7	away	away	ADV	_	4 sucks	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suck away	present	Its iron core	the heat				away property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent heat=Source

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It has almost no air to hold the heat in

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 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	almost	almost	ADV	_	5 air	advmod
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 air	det
5	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 hold	mark
7	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 air	acl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 heat	det
9	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hold	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	7 hold	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	It	no air					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Patient
2	hold in	to-infinitive		the heat					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Theme

Option 3

Its ice caps cool the whole planet

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	3 caps	nmod:poss
2	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caps	compound
3	caps	cap	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cool	nsubj
4	cool	cool	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 planet	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 planet	amod
7	planet	planet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cool	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cool	present	Its ice caps	the whole planet					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent planet=Patient

Option 4

Its night side faces away from the Sun forever

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	3 side	nmod:poss
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 side	compound
3	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 faces	nsubj
4	faces	face	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 faces	advmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 Sun	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Sun	det
8	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 faces	obl
9	forever	forever	ADV	_	4 faces	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	face away	present	Its night side			the Sun		away, forever property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme

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