Exam question 1 · Olympiad: planet puzzles ★★★

Determine the number of Mercurian years which elapse between successive sunrises on Mercury.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Mercurian years · What happens: determine, elapse · To what, where: number

This is exam question 1 of lesson 31 «Olympiad: planet puzzles ★★★» of the space course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 number	det
3	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Determine	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 years	case
5	Mercurian	Mercurian	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 years	compound
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 number	nmod
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 elapse	nsubj
8	elapse	elapse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 years	acl:relcl
9	between	between	ADP	_	11 sunrises	case
10	successive	successive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sunrises	amod
11	sunrises	sunrise	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 elapse	obl
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 Mercury	case
13	Mercury	Mercury	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 sunrises	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here	the number of Mercurian years					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic
2	elapse	present	Mercurian years				sunrise		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

One hundred and seventy-six

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 six	cc
4	seventy	seventy	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 six	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 seventy	punct
6	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	conj

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

Option 2

One

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4

Eighty-eight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eighty	eighty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 eight	punct
3	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Eighty	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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