Test 1 · ★ · Venus

why's Venus hotter than Mercury when Mercury's way closer??

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Venus · What happens: be · To what, where: way

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 4 «Venus» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 hotter	advmod
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hotter	cop
3	Venus	Venus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 hotter	nsubj
4	hotter	hot	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 Mercury	case
6	Mercury	Mercury	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 hotter	obl
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 closer	advmod
8	Mercury	Mercury	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 way	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Mercury	case
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 closer	obl:unmarked
11	closer	close	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 hotter	conj
12	??	??	PUNCT	_	4 hotter	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Venus					than Mercury; hot property	tree rules
2	be		Venus not said here	Mercury's way					tree rules

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

Venus is actually closer to the Sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Venus	Venus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 closer	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 closer	cop
3	actually	actually	ADV	_	4 closer	advmod
4	closer	close	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 Sun	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Sun	det
7	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 closer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Venus					to the Sun; actually, close property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Venus's thick carbon dioxide air traps the heat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Venus	Venus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 air	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Venus	case
3	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 air	amod
4	carbon	carbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dioxide	compound
5	dioxide	dioxide	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 air	compound
6	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 traps	nsubj
7	traps	trap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 heat	det
9	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 traps	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trap	present	Venus's thick dioxide air	the heat					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Patient

Option 3

Venus has volcanoes on fire all the time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Venus	Venus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	volcanoes	volcano	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 fire	case
5	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 volcanoes	nmod
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 time	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 time	det
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Venus	volcanoes		fire	time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent volcano=Patient

Option 4

Venus has a hotter core

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Venus	Venus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 core	det
4	hotter	hot	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 core	amod
5	core	core	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Venus	a hotter core					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent core=Patient

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