Exam question 3 · Olympiad: planet puzzles ★★★
Neptune was discovered in 1846 and completes an orbit in about 165 years. State the year in which it completes its second orbit since discovery.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: State · What happens: discover, complete · To what, where: Neptune, 1846, orbit, second orbit, State
This is exam question 3 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
Sentence 1: Neptune was discovered in 1846 and completes an orbit in about 165 years.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Neptune | Neptune | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 discovered | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 discovered | aux:pass |
| 3 | discovered | discover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 1846 | case |
| 5 | 1846 | 1846 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 discovered | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 completes | cc |
| 7 | completes | complete | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 discovered | conj |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 orbit | det |
| 9 | orbit | orbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 completes | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 years | case |
| 11 | about | about | ADV | _ | 12 165 | advmod |
| 12 | 165 | 165 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 years | nummod |
| 13 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 completes | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 discovered | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discover | past · passive | Neptune | 1846 | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | complete | present | a orbit | year | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent orbit=Eventuality |
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.
Sentence 2: State the year in which it completes its second orbit since discovery.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | State | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 year | det |
| 3 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 State | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 which | case |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 completes | obl |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 completes | nsubj |
| 7 | completes | complete | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 State | parataxis |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 orbit | nmod:poss |
| 9 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 orbit | amod |
| 10 | orbit | orbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 completes | obj |
| 11 | since | since | ADP | _ | 12 discovery | case |
| 12 | discovery | discovery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 completes | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 State | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | complete | present | State | State's second orbit | State the year | since discovery | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent orbit=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
About 2046
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 2046 | advmod |
| 2 | 2046 | 2046 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
About 2176
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 2176 | advmod |
| 2 | 2176 | 2176 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
About 2011
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 2011 | advmod |
| 2 | 2011 | 2011 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
About 2341
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 2341 | advmod |
| 2 | 2341 | 2341 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
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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