Test 3 · ★ · Saturn and its rings

my dad looked through his telescope in 2025 and said Saturn had lost its rings. bloody hell, have they gone??

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: dad, Saturn, rings · What happens: look, say, lose, have, go · To what, where: rings · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 12 «Saturn and its rings» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 dad	nmod:poss
2	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looked	nsubj
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	through	through	ADP	_	6 telescope	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 telescope	nmod:poss
6	telescope	telescope	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looked	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 2025	case
8	2025	2025	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 looked	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	conj
11	Saturn	Saturn	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 lost	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 lost	aux
13	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 said	ccomp
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 rings	nmod:poss
15	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 lost	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 lost	punct
17	bloody	bloody	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 hell	amod
18	hell	hell	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lost	obl:unmarked
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 have	punct
20	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	conj
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 gone	nsubj
22	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 have	xcomp
23	??	??	PUNCT	_	3 looked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	past	my dad		in 2025; through dad's telescope	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through telescope=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	my dad not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	lose	past · perfect	Saturn	telescope's rings	bloody hell obl:unmarked	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Eventuality
4	have	present	my dad not said here			tree rules
5	go	participle	rings = ring			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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

No, a moon was blocking the view

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 blocking	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 moon	det
4	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blocking	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 blocking	aux
6	blocking	block	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 view	det
8	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blocking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	block	past · progressive	a moon	the view					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer view=Theme

Option 2

Yes, they fell into Saturn that year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 fell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fell	nsubj
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 Saturn	case
6	Saturn	Saturn	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 fell	obl
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 year	det
8	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	they				year	into Saturn result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into saturn=Result

Option 3

Yes, a comet smashed them to bits

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 smashed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 comet	det
4	comet	comet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 smashed	nsubj
5	smashed	smash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 smashed	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 bits	case
8	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 smashed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smash	past	a comet	them = they		bits			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme to bit=Destination

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, they were edge-on to us and too thin to see

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 on	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 on	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 on	cop
5	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 on	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 on	punct
7	on	on	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 us	case
9	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 on	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 thin	cc
11	too	too	ADV	_	12 thin	advmod
12	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 on	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 see	mark
14	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 thin	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	is a	past	they	edge on	us	tree rules
2	be		they not said here			tree rules
3	see	to-infinitive	they not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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