Test 9 · ★ · Venus

Why does Venus have fairly few craters?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Venus · What happens: have · To what, where: few craters

This is test 9 · ★ 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 have	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
3	Venus	Venus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	fairly	fairly	ADV	_	6 few	advmod
6	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 craters	amod
7	craters	crater	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present · do-support	Venus	few craters					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crater=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 · ✓ the right answer

Its surface is fairly young, renewed perhaps by lava

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 surface	nmod:poss
2	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 young	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 young	cop
4	fairly	fairly	ADV	_	5 young	advmod
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 renewed	punct
7	renewed	renew	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 young	conj
8	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	7 renewed	advmod
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 lava	case
10	lava	lava	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 renewed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Its surface					fairly, young property	tree rules
2	renew	participle	Its surface not said here					by lava; perhaps property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Its moons catch all the rocks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 moons	nmod:poss
2	moons	moon	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 catch	nsubj
3	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 rocks	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rocks	det
6	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 catch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	present	Its moons	all rocks					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rock=Theme

Option 3

Nothing ever hits Venus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 hits	nsubj
2	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 hits	advmod
3	hits	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Venus	Venus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 hits	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	present	Nothing	Venus			ever		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme venus=Co-Theme

Option 4

Its acid clouds melt all the craters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 clouds	nmod:poss
2	acid	acid	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 clouds	compound
3	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 melt	nsubj
4	melt	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 craters	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 craters	det
7	craters	crater	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 melt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	present	Its acid clouds	all craters					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient crater=Result
2	cloud		Its = it						nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent

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