Exam question 3 · The Earth as a planet

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the composition of the Earth's atmosphere?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: follow, characteris · To what, where: composition

This is exam question 3 of lesson 5 «The Earth as a planet» 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 composition	det
10	composition	composition	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	15 atmosphere	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Earth	det
13	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 atmosphere	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 Earth	case
15	atmosphere	atmosphere	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 composition	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present		the composition of the Earth's atmosphere				of the following statements; accurately property	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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Approximately seventy-eight per cent nitrogen and twenty-one per cent oxygen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	4 eight	advmod
2	seventy	seventy	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 eight	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 seventy	punct
4	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
5	per	per	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cent	compound
6	cent	cent	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 nitrogen	compound
7	nitrogen	nitrogen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eight	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 one	cc
9	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 one	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 twenty	punct
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 eight	conj
12	per	per	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cent	compound
13	cent	cent	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 oxygen	compound
14	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 one	conj

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

Option 2

Predominantly carbon dioxide with traces of nitrogen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Predominantly	predominantly	ADV	_	3 dioxide	advmod
2	carbon	carbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dioxide	compound
3	dioxide	dioxide	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 traces	case
5	traces	trace	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dioxide	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 nitrogen	case
7	nitrogen	nitrogen	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 traces	nmod

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

Option 3

Predominantly oxygen with traces of nitrogen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Predominantly	predominantly	ADV	_	2 oxygen	advmod
2	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 traces	case
4	traces	trace	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 oxygen	nmod
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 nitrogen	case
6	nitrogen	nitrogen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 traces	nmod

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

Option 4

Predominantly hydrogen and helium

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Predominantly	predominantly	ADV	_	2 hydrogen	advmod
2	hydrogen	hydrogen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 helium	cc
4	helium	helium	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hydrogen	conj

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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