Test 3 · ★ · Venus

Why did landers on Venus stop working so quickly?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: landers · What happens: work

This is test 3 · ★ 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	7 working	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 working	aux
3	landers	lander	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 working	nsubj
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 Venus	case
5	Venus	Venus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 landers	nmod
6	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 working	aux
7	working	work	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 quickly	advmod
9	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	7 working	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 working	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	past · do-support	landers on Venus					quickly property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The heat and crushing pressure destroyed them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 heat	det
2	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 destroyed	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 crushing	cc
4	crushing	crush	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 heat	conj
5	pressure	pressure	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crushing	obj
6	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 destroyed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crush	gerund	the heat not said here	pressure					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pressure=Patient
2	destroy	past	the heat	them = they					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 2

Volcanoes buried them on landing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Volcanoes	volcano	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 buried	nsubj
2	buried	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 buried	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 landing	case
5	landing	landing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 buried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury	past	Volcanoes	them = they		landing			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme on landing=Destination

Option 3

They could not find any light

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 find	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 find	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 find	advmod
4	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 light	det
6	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not find	could	They	any light					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Topic

Option 4

Acid rain dissolved their parachutes in space

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Acid	acid	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rain	compound
2	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dissolved	nsubj
3	dissolved	dissolve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 parachutes	nmod:poss
5	parachutes	parachute	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dissolved	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 space	case
7	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dissolved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dissolve	participle	Acid rain	their parachutes		space			vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parachute=Patient

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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