Test 8 · ★★★ · Jupiter
In 1994 a comet broke into pieces and crashed into Jupiter. What did telescopes see?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: comet, telescopes · What happens: break, crash, see · To what, where: 1994, Jupiter
This is test 8 · ★★★ of lesson 10 «Jupiter» of the space 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
Sentence 1: In 1994 a comet broke into pieces and crashed into Jupiter.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1994 | case |
| 2 | 1994 | 1994 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 broke | obl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 comet | det |
| 4 | comet | comet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 broke | nsubj |
| 5 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 pieces | case |
| 7 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 broke | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 crashed | cc |
| 9 | crashed | crash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 broke | conj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 Jupiter | case |
| 11 | Jupiter | Jupiter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 crashed | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 broke | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past | a comet | 1994 | into pieces | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1994=Location | |||
| 2 | crash | past | a comet not said here | into Jupiter result | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into jupiter=Result |
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.
Sentence 2: What did telescopes see?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 see | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | aux |
| 3 | telescopes | telescope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 see | nsubj |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · do-support | telescopes | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Dark scars bigger than the Earth in its clouds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 scars | amod |
| 2 | scars | scar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bigger | nsubj |
| 3 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | than | than | ADP | _ | 6 Earth | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Earth | det |
| 6 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 bigger | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 clouds | case |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 clouds | nmod:poss |
| 9 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bigger | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cloud | Earth | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 2
A crater in its rocky surface
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 crater | det |
| 2 | crater | crater | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 surface | case |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 surface | nmod:poss |
| 5 | rocky | rocky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 surface | amod |
| 6 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 crater | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Jupiter exploding into rings
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jupiter | Jupiter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 exploding | nsubj |
| 2 | exploding | explode | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 4 rings | case |
| 4 | rings | ring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 exploding | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | explode | gerund | Jupiter | rings | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
Option 4
Nothing, it swallowed them silently without any marks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 swallowed | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 swallowed | nsubj |
| 4 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 swallowed | obj |
| 6 | silently | silently | ADV | _ | 4 swallowed | advmod |
| 7 | without | without | ADP | _ | 9 marks | case |
| 8 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 marks | det |
| 9 | marks | mark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 swallowed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swallow | past | Nothing | them = they | without any marks; silently property | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/10-jupiter/t8/