Test 11 · ★ · The Moon, the planets and the pull that holds them

What makes a shooting star glow?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: shooting star · What happens: make, glow · To what, where: shooting star

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 2 «The Moon, the planets and the pull that holds them» of the physics 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 star	det
4	shooting	shooting	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 star	compound
5	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
6	glow	glow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	xcomp
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 makes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present		a shooting star					tree rules
2	glow	infinitive	a shooting star not said here						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

The air in front of it gets squashed and very hot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 air	det
2	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 squashed	nsubj:pass
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 front	case
4	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 air	nmod
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 front	nmod
7	gets	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 squashed	aux:pass
8	squashed	squash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 hot	cc
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 hot	advmod
11	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 squashed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squash	present · passive		the air in front of front					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It is burning like a real star

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 burning	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 burning	aux
3	burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	7 star	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 star	det
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 star	amod
7	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 burning	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	present · progressive	It					like a real star	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It reflects light from the Moon

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	2 reflects	nsubj
2	reflects	reflect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reflects	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 Moon	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Moon	det
6	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 reflects	obl

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

Option 4

It has a tiny battery inside it

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	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 battery	det
4	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 battery	amod
5	battery	battery	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
6	inside	inside	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 battery	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	It	a tiny battery		battery			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battery=Patient

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