Test 3 · Mercury

How can a day on Mercury last longer than its year?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗

This is test 3 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 longer	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 day	det
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 longer	obl
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 Mercury	case
6	Mercury	Mercury	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 day	nmod
7	last	last	ADV	_	8 longer	advmod
8	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 How	advmod
9	than	than	ADP	_	11 year	case
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 year	nmod:poss
11	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 longer	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 How	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It does not spin at all

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	4 spin	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 spin	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 spin	advmod
4	spin	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 spin	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not spin	present · do-support	It			all			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at all=Trajectory

Option 2

Its year is counted backwards

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	2 year	nmod:poss
2	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 counted	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 counted	aux:pass
4	counted	count	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	4 counted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	present · passive		Its year				backwards property	vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It spins so slowly that one sunrise to the next takes two of its years

The tree, 15 words

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 spins	nsubj
2	spins	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 slowly	advmod
4	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	2 spins	advmod
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 takes	mark
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 sunrise	nummod
7	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 takes	nsubj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 next	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 next	det
10	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sunrise	nmod
11	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 spins	advcl
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 takes	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 years	case
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 years	nmod:poss
15	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 two	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spin	present	It					slowly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	take	present	one sunrise to the next	two of its years					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=Theme

Option 4

Its days are measured in Earth weeks

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	2 days	nmod:poss
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 measured	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 measured	aux:pass
4	measured	measure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 weeks	case
6	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 weeks	compound
7	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 measured	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	measure	present · passive		Its days			week		vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: subject=Value

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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