Test 5 · ★ · Saturn and its rings

Why could you not fly a spacecraft down onto Saturn and park it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: not fly down, park · To what, where: spacecraft, Saturn

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 fly	advmod
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 fly	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 fly	nsubj
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 fly	advmod
5	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 spacecraft	det
7	spacecraft	spacecraft	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fly	obj
8	down	down	ADV	_	5 fly	advmod
9	onto	onto	ADP	_	10 Saturn	case
10	Saturn	Saturn	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 fly	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 park	cc
12	park	park	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 fly	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 park	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 fly	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not fly down	could	you	a spacecraft		Saturn		down property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme spacecraft=Trajectory
2	park	infinitive	you not said here	spacecraft					vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 · ← Mova's choice

Saturn's surface is too slippery

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Saturn	Saturn	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 surface	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Saturn	case
3	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 slippery	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 slippery	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 slippery	advmod
6	slippery	slippery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Saturn's surface					slippery property	tree rules

Option 2

Saturn spins too slowly to land on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Saturn	Saturn	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 spins	nsubj
2	spins	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 slowly	advmod
4	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	2 spins	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 land	mark
6	land	land	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 spins	advcl
7	on	on	ADP	_	6 land	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spin	present	Saturn					slowly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	land on	to-infinitive	Saturn not said here						vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Saturn's rings stop anything getting near

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Saturn	Saturn	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 rings	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Saturn	case
3	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stop	nsubj
4	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 stop	obj
6	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 anything	acl
7	near	near	ADV	_	6 getting	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	Saturn's rings	anything					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality anything=Eventuality
2	get	gerund						near property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Saturn is gas, with no solid surface

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Saturn	Saturn	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 gas	compound
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 gas	cop
3	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 surface	punct
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 surface	case
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 surface	det
7	solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 surface	amod
8	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gas	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		Saturn gas				with no solid surface	tree rules

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