Exam question 2 · Day and night
It is given that the Earth completes one rotation upon its axis. State the approximate duration of the said rotation.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Earth · What happens: give, complete, say · To what, where: It, one rotation · Speech: someone speaks here
This is exam question 2 of lesson 1 «Day and night» of the world 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 the Earth completes one rotation upon its axis.
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 completes | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Earth | det |
| 6 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 completes | nsubj |
| 7 | completes | complete | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | advcl |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 rotation | nummod |
| 9 | rotation | rotation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 completes | obj |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 axis | case |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 axis | nmod:poss |
| 12 | axis | axis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 completes | obl |
| 13 | . | . | 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 | complete | present | the Earth | one rotation | upon Earth's axis | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rotation=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: State the approximate duration of the said rotation.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | State | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 duration | compound |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 duration | det |
| 3 | approximate | approximate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 duration | amod |
| 4 | duration | duration | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 rotation | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rotation | det |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 rotation | amod |
| 8 | rotation | rotation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 duration | nmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 duration | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | participle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Twenty-four hours
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 hours | nummod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 four | punct |
| 3 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Twenty | conj |
| 4 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Three hundred and sixty-five days
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | compound |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 days | nummod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 sixty | cc |
| 4 | sixty | sixty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | conj |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 sixty | punct |
| 6 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 days | nummod |
| 7 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Seven days
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 days | nummod |
| 2 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Twelve hours
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hours | nummod |
| 2 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 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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