Exam question 3 · The YouTuber who is right about everything

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the shape of the Earth.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, established facts · What happens: select, establish, concern · To what, where: response, shape

This is exam question 3 of lesson 174 «The YouTuber who is right about everything» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Select	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 facts	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 facts	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 facts	amod
8	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 consistent	obl
9	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 facts	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 shape	det
11	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 Earth	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Earth	det
14	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 shape	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response	consistent property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here	the shape of the Earth		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus shape=Experiencer

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

It is flat, as asserted in certain videos

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 flat	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 flat	cop
3	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 asserted	punct
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 asserted	mark
6	asserted	assert	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 flat	conj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 videos	case
8	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 videos	amod
9	videos	video	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 asserted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					flat property	tree rules
2	assert	participle				certain videos			vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It is round, as shown by photographs from space and circumnavigation

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 round	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 round	cop
3	round	round	ADV	_	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 shown	punct
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 shown	mark
6	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 round	conj
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 photographs	case
8	photographs	photograph	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 shown	obl
9	from	from	ADP	_	10 space	case
10	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 photographs	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 circumnavigation	cc
12	circumnavigation	circumnavigation	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 photographs	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					round property	tree rules
2	show	participle						by photographs from space and circumnavigation	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

It is round only at the equator

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	7 equator	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 equator	cop
3	round	round	ADV	_	4 only	advmod
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 equator	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 equator	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 equator	det
7	equator	equator	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It			the equator			tree rules

Option 4

Its shape has not been determined

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 shape	nmod:poss
2	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 determined	nsubj:pass
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 determined	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 determined	advmod
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 determined	aux:pass
6	determined	determine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not determine	present · perfect · passive		Its shape					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

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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