Exam question 2 · The Sun as a star and the stars

State the approximate duration required for the light of the Sun to reach the Earth.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: require, reach, light · To what, where: State, Earth, Sun

This is exam question 2 of lesson 5 «The Sun as a star and the stars» 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	State	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 required	nsubj:pass
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	5 required	nsubj:pass
5	required	require	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 light	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 light	det
8	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 required	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 Sun	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Sun	det
11	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 light	nmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 reach	mark
13	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 required	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Earth	det
15	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 reach	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 required	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	require	participle · passive	State	for the light of the Sun	vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Precondition
2	reach	to-infinitive	the Earth		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent earth=Theme
3	light		the Sun		nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

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

Approximately eight hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 eight	advmod
2	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 hours	nummod
3	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Approximately eight seconds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 eight	advmod
2	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 seconds	nummod
3	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Approximately eight days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 eight	advmod
2	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 days	nummod
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Approximately eight minutes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 eight	advmod
2	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 minutes	nummod
3	minutes	minute	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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