Test 2 · The solar system and the planets

Which is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 2 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true 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 · ← Mova's choice

Mercury takes the longest to go around the Sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mercury	Mercury	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 takes	nsubj
2	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 longest	det
4	longest	long	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 takes	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 go	mark
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 takes	advcl
7	around	around	ADP	_	9 Sun	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Sun	det
9	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present	Mercury	the longest					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent long=Theme
2	go	to-infinitive	Mercury not said here			the Sun			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme around sun=Initial_Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A year on Mercury is shorter than a year on the Earth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 year	det
2	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shorter	nsubj
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 Mercury	case
4	Mercury	Mercury	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 year	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 shorter	cop
6	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
7	than	than	ADP	_	9 year	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 year	det
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shorter	obl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 Earth	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Earth	det
12	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 shorter	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a year on Mercury			the Earth	year	short property	tree rules

Option 3

All planets have years of the same length

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 planets	det
2	planets	planet	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 length	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 length	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 length	amod
8	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 years	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	all planets				year		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

A year on Neptune is shorter than a year on the Earth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 year	det
2	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shorter	nsubj
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 Neptune	case
4	Neptune	Neptune	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 year	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 shorter	cop
6	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
7	than	than	ADP	_	9 year	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 year	det
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shorter	obl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 Earth	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Earth	det
12	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 shorter	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a year on Neptune			the Earth	year	short property	tree rules

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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