Test 4 · Mercury

How can ice survive on the planet closest to the Sun?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: ice · What happens: survive · To what, where: planet

This is test 4 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	4 survive	advmod
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 survive	aux
3	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 survive	nsubj
4	survive	survive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 planet	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 planet	det
7	planet	planet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 survive	obl
8	closest	close	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 planet	amod
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 Sun	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Sun	det
11	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 closest	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 survive	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	survive	can	ice			the planet			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on planet=Location

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

It snows on Mercury every single night when it gets cold

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 snows	nsubj
2	snows	snow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 Mercury	case
4	Mercury	Mercury	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 snows	obl
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 night	det
6	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 night	amod
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 snows	obl:unmarked
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 gets	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gets	nsubj
10	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 snows	advcl
11	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 gets	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snow	present	It			Mercury	night		vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
2	get	present	it					cold property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

The Sun never shines on Mercury

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Sun	det
2	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 shines	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 shines	advmod
4	shines	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 Mercury	case
6	Mercury	Mercury	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 shines	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not shine	present	the Sun			Mercury			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on mercury=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It sits in craters whose floors are always in shadow

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 sits	nsubj
2	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 craters	case
4	craters	crater	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sits	obl
5	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	6 floors	nmod:poss
6	floors	floor	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 shadow	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 shadow	cop
8	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	10 shadow	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 shadow	case
10	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 craters	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	present	It			craters			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in crater=Location
2	is	present	shadow's floors			shadow		always property	tree rules

Option 4

The ice is kept under a layer of oil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ice	det
2	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kept	aux:pass
4	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	under	under	ADP	_	7 layer	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 layer	det
7	layer	layer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 oil	case
9	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 layer	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present · passive		the ice		a layer of oil			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme under layer=Location

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