Exam question 2 · Venus

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the rotation of Venus?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Venus · What happens: follow, characteris, rotate · To what, where: rotation

This is exam question 2 of lesson 4 «Venus» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 characterises	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 statements	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 statements	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 statements	amod
5	statements	statement	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 characterises	obl
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 accurately	advmod
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	8 characterises	advmod
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 rotation	det
10	rotation	rotation	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Venus	case
12	Venus	Venus	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 rotation	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present		the rotation of Venus	of the following statements; accurately property	tree rules
3	rotate		Venus			nom rotation «act intransitive»: of=agent

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

It does not rotate whatsoever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rotate	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 rotate	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 rotate	advmod
4	rotate	rotate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	whatsoever	whatsoever	ADV	_	4 rotate	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not rotate	present · do-support	It					whatsoever property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It rotates once every twenty-four hours in the usual sense

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rotates	nsubj
2	rotates	rotate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 rotates	advmod
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 hours	det
5	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 four	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 twenty	punct
7	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 hours	nummod
8	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 rotates	obl:unmarked
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 sense	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sense	det
11	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sense	amod
12	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rotates	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rotate	present	It			the usual sense	hour	once property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sense=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It rotates in the retrograde sense and its day exceeds its year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rotates	nsubj
2	rotates	rotate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 sense	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sense	det
5	retrograde	retrograde	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sense	compound
6	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rotates	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 exceeds	cc
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 day	nmod:poss
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 exceeds	nsubj
10	exceeds	exceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 rotates	conj
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 year	nmod:poss
12	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 exceeds	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rotate	present	It			the retrograde sense			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sense=Location
2	exceed	present	sense's day				year		vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot

Option 4

It rotates more rapidly than any other planet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rotates	nsubj
2	rotates	rotate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 rapidly	advmod
4	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	_	2 rotates	advmod
5	than	than	ADP	_	8 planet	case
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 planet	det
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 planet	amod
8	planet	planet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rapidly	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rotate	present	It					rapidly property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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