Exam question 1 · Olympiad: stars, light and space history ★★★

State the approximate age of a ten-year-old observer at the moment when the light of Proxima Centauri now reaching him departed that star.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: light, approximate age · What happens: reach, depart, light · To what, where: age, State, Proxima

This is exam question 1 of lesson 32 «Olympiad: stars, light and space history ★★★» 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	State	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 departed	obl:unmarked
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 age	det
3	approximate	approximate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 age	amod
4	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 departed	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	12 observer	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 observer	det
7	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 year	nummod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 ten	punct
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 old	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 year	punct
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 observer	amod
12	observer	observer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 age	nmod
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 moment	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 moment	det
15	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 observer	nmod:unmarked
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 reaching	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 light	det
18	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 reaching	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 Proxima	case
20	Proxima	Proxima	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 light	nmod
21	Centauri	Centauri	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Proxima	flat
22	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 reaching	advmod
23	reaching	reach	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 moment	advcl
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 reaching	obj
25	departed	depart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 star	mark
27	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 departed	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 departed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	reach	gerund	the light of Proxima	age	now	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	depart	past	the approximate age of a old observer at the moment	State		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme star=Initial_Location
3	light			Proxima		nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

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

About fourteen years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 fourteen	advmod
2	fourteen	fourteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

About six years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 six	advmod
2	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

About four years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 four	advmod
2	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

About ten years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 ten	advmod
2	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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