Exam question 2 · Olympiad: transport, building and energy ★★★
The International Space Station completes one orbit of the Earth in approximately 90 minutes. Ascertain the approximate number of orbits completed in one day.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: International Space Station, you · What happens: complete, ascertain · To what, where: one orbit, approximate number, orbits
This is exam question 2 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: The International Space Station completes one orbit of the Earth in approximately 90 minutes.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Station | det |
| 2 | International | International | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Station | compound |
| 3 | Space | Space | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Station | compound |
| 4 | Station | Station | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 completes | nsubj |
| 5 | completes | complete | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 orbit | nummod |
| 7 | orbit | orbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 completes | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Earth | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Earth | det |
| 10 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 orbit | nmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 minutes | case |
| 12 | approximately | approximately | ADV | _ | 13 90 | advmod |
| 13 | 90 | 90 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 minutes | nummod |
| 14 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 completes | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 completes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | complete | present | the International Space Station | one orbit of the Earth | minute | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent orbit=Eventuality |
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: Ascertain the approximate number of orbits completed in one day.
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 number | det |
| 3 | approximate | approximate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 number | amod |
| 4 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ascertain | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 orbits | case |
| 6 | orbits | orbit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 number | nmod |
| 7 | completed | complete | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 orbits | acl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 day | case |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 day | nummod |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 completed | obl |
| 11 | . | . | 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 approximate number of orbits | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic | ||||
| 2 | complete | participle | orbits not said here | day | vn complete-55.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Sixteen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sixteen | sixteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Twenty-four
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 four | punct |
| 3 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Twenty | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Ninety
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ninety | ninety | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
One
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 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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