Exam question 3 · Olympiad: stars, light and space history ★★★

Identify the earliest of the following events.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, follow · To what, where: earliest

This is exam question 3 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 earliest	det
3	earliest	early	ADJ	Degree=Sup	1 Identify	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 events	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 events	det
6	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 events	amod
7	events	event	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 earliest	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the earliest					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent early=Theme
2	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

The launch of Sputnik 1

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 launch	det
2	launch	launch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Sputnik	case
4	Sputnik	Sputnik	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 launch	nmod
5	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 Sputnik	flat

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

Option 2

The landing of Apollo 11

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 landing	det
2	landing	landing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 11	case
4	Apollo	Apollo	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 11	compound
5	11	11	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 landing	nmod

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

Option 3

The orbital flight of Laika

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 flight	det
2	orbital	orbital	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 flight	amod
3	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Laika	case
5	Laika	Laika	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 flight	nmod

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

Option 4

The flight of Yuri Gagarin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 flight	det
2	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Gagarin	case
4	Yuri	Yuri	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Gagarin	compound
5	Gagarin	Gagarin	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 flight	nmod

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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