Exam question 2 · Olympiad: stars, light and space history ★★★

Arrange the following stellar colours in order of increasing surface temperature: blue-white, red, yellow.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, order · What happens: arrange, follow, increase · To what, where: stellar colours, order, surface temperature

This is exam question 2 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	Arrange	arrange	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 colours	det
3	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 colours	case
4	stellar	stellar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 colours	amod
5	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Arrange	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 order	case
7	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 colours	nmod
8	of	of	SCONJ	_	9 increasing	mark
9	increasing	increase	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 order	acl
10	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 temperature	compound
11	temperature	temperature	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 increasing	obj
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 white	punct
13	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 white	amod
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 blue	punct
15	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 temperature	appos
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 red	punct
17	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 white	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 yellow	punct
19	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 white	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Arrange	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	arrange	imperative	you not said here	the stellar colours	order	vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent colour=Theme in order=Destination
2	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	increase	gerund	order not said here	surface temperature		vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer temperature=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

Blue-white, yellow, red

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Blue	punct
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Blue	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 yellow	punct
5	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Blue	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 red	punct
7	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Blue	conj

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

Option 2

Yellow, red, blue-white

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 red	punct
3	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Yellow	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 white	punct
5	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 white	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 blue	punct
7	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Yellow	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Red, yellow, blue-white

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 yellow	punct
3	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Red	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 white	punct
5	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 white	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 blue	punct
7	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Red	conj

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

Option 4

Red, blue-white, yellow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 white	punct
3	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 white	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 blue	punct
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Red	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 yellow	punct
7	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Red	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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