Exam question 1 · Olympiad: transport, building and energy ★★★
It is given that an aircraft departs from runway 27. Determine the compass direction in which it is heading.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: aircraft, you, direction · What happens: give, depart, determine, head · To what, where: It, runway, compass direction
This is exam question 1 of lesson 43 «Olympiad: transport, building and energy ★★★» of the technology 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
Sentence 1: It is given that an aircraft departs from runway 27.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 given | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | aux:pass |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 departs | mark |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 aircraft | det |
| 6 | aircraft | aircraft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 departs | nsubj |
| 7 | departs | depart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | advcl |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 runway | case |
| 9 | runway | runway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 departs | obl |
| 10 | 27 | 27 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 runway | flat |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · passive | It | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | depart | present | a aircraft | runway | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from runway=Initial_Location |
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.
Sentence 2: Determine the compass direction in which it is heading.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Determine | determine | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 direction | det |
| 3 | compass | compass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 direction | compound |
| 4 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Determine | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 which | case |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 heading | obl |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 heading | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 heading | aux |
| 9 | heading | head | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 direction | acl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Determine | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | imperative | you not said here | the compass direction | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent direction=Topic | ||||
| 2 | head | present · progressive | direction | the compass direction | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
South
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | South | south | ADV | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
East
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
North
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
West
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | West | west | ADV | _ | 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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