Exam question 4 · Asteroids and the asteroid belt

Ascertain the aggregate mass of the asteroid belt relative to that of the Moon.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain · To what, where: aggregate mass

This is exam question 4 of lesson 9 «Asteroids and the asteroid belt» 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mass	det
3	aggregate	aggregate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mass	compound
4	mass	mass	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 relative	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 relative	det
7	asteroid	asteroid	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 belt	compound
8	belt	belt	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 relative	compound
9	relative	relative	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mass	nmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 that	case
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 relative	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 Moon	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Moon	det
14	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 relative	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the aggregate mass of the belt relative to that of the Moon					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mass=Topic

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

Approximately thirty times greater

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 thirty	advmod
2	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 times	nummod
3	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 greater	obl:unmarked
4	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

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

Option 2

Approximately equal thereto

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 equal	advmod
2	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	thereto	thereto	ADV	_	2 equal	advmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Approximately three per cent thereof

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	4 cent	advmod
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 cent	nummod
3	per	per	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cent	compound
4	cent	cent	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	thereof	thereof	ADV	_	4 cent	advmod

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

Option 4

Approximately three hundred times greater

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	3 hundred	advmod
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 hundred	compound
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 times	nummod
4	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 greater	obl:unmarked
5	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

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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