Test 3 · ★★★ · Olympiad: planet puzzles ★★★

★★★ Mia from Melbourne: "Venus takes longer to spin once than to go round the Sun, no cap." Is she right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Venus · What happens: take, spin, go, be · To what, where: Sun

This is test 3 · ★★★ of lesson 31 «Olympiad: planet puzzles ★★★» 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

Sentence 1: ★★★ Mia from Melbourne: "Venus takes longer to spin once than to go round the Sun, no cap."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	★	★	PUNCT	_	1 ★	punct
3	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 ★	flat
4	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 ★	flat
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 Melbourne	case
6	Melbourne	Melbourne	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 ★	nmod
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 takes	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 takes	punct
9	Venus	Venus	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 takes	nsubj
10	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 ★	parataxis
11	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 takes	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 spin	mark
13	spin	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 takes	advcl
14	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	13 spin	advmod
15	than	than	SCONJ	_	17 go	mark
16	to	to	PART	_	17 go	mark
17	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 spin	advcl
18	round	round	ADP	_	20 Sun	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Sun	det
20	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 go	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 cap	punct
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 cap	det
23	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 Sun	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 ★	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 ★	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	take in a quote	present	Venus		long property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	spin in a quote	to-infinitive	Venus not said here		once property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	go in a quote	to-infinitive	Venus not said here	the Sun and no cap		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme round sun=Initial_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.

Sentence 2: Is she right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
3	right	right	ADV	_	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Venus					right property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yes: a spin takes twice as long as a lap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 takes	discourse
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 spin	det
4	spin	spin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 takes	nsubj
5	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 long	advmod
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 long	advmod
8	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 takes	advmod
9	as	as	ADP	_	11 lap	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 lap	det
11	lap	lap	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 long	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present	a spin					long property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yes: a spin is about 243 days, a lap 225

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 days	discourse
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 days	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 spin	det
4	spin	spin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 days	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 days	cop
6	about	about	ADV	_	7 243	advmod
7	243	243	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 days	nummod
8	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lap	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 lap	det
11	lap	lap	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 days	appos
12	225	225	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 lap	flat

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a spin	243 days					tree rules

Option 3

No: it spins once a day, like the Earth does

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 spins	det
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 spins	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spins	nsubj
4	spins	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 spins	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 once	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 does	punct
9	like	like	SCONJ	_	12 does	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Earth	det
11	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 does	nsubj
12	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 spins	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spin	present	it					once property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	do	present	the Earth						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

No: Venus does not spin round at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 Venus	det
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	Venus	Venus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 spin	nsubj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 spin	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 spin	advmod
6	spin	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	round	round	ADV	_	6 spin	advmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 spin	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not spin round	present · do-support	no Venus			all		round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at all=Trajectory

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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