Test 12 · The solar system and the planets

Tom says Mercury's the hottest planet cos it's closest to the Sun. true?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Tom, Mercury, planet · What happens: say, be · To what, where: hottest planet · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 of lesson 4 «The solar system and the planets» of the world course of Mova's primary school. 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	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Mercury	Mercury	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 planet	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 planet	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 planet	det
6	hottest	hot	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 planet	amod
7	planet	planet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	ccomp
8	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	11 closest	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 closest	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 closest	cop
11	closest	close	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 planet	amod
12	to	to	ADP	_	15 true	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 true	det
14	Sun.	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 true	nsubj
15	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 closest	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Tom			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	Mercury	the hottest planet		tree rules
3	is	present	planet		to the true; close property	tree rules

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

Yes, the closest planet must be the hottest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	9 hottest	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 planet	det
4	closest	close	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 planet	amod
5	planet	planet	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hottest	nsubj
6	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 hottest	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 hottest	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hottest	det
9	hottest	hot	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	must	the closest planet					hot property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, Venus is hottest because its thick air traps heat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 hottest	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	Venus	Venus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 hottest	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hottest	cop
5	hottest	hot	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 traps	mark
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 air	nmod:poss
8	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 air	amod
9	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 traps	nsubj
10	traps	trap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hottest	advcl
11	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 traps	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Venus					hot property	tree rules
2	trap	present	its thick air	heat					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Patient

Option 3

Yes, Mercury is hotter than all the others by far

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 hotter	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	Mercury	Mercury	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 hotter	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hotter	cop
5	hotter	hot	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	than	than	ADP	_	9 others	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 others	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 others	det
9	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hotter	obl
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 far	case
11	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 hotter	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Mercury					than all others; hot property	tree rules

Option 4

No, Jupiter is hottest because it is biggest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 hottest	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 hottest	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hottest	cop
5	hottest	hot	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 biggest	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 biggest	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 biggest	cop
9	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 hottest	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Jupiter					hot property	tree rules
2	is	present	it					big property	tree rules

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