Test 2 · Saturn's moons

Why would scientists be excited to fly through the spray of Enceladus?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: scientists · What happens: be, fly · To what, where: spray

This is test 2 of lesson 13 «Saturn's moons» 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 excited	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 excited	aux
3	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 excited	nsubj
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 excited	cop
5	excited	excited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 fly	mark
7	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 excited	xcomp
8	through	through	ADP	_	10 spray	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 spray	det
10	spray	spray	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fly	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Enceladus	case
12	Enceladus	Enceladus	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 spray	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 excited	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	scientists					excited property	tree rules
2	fly	to-infinitive	scientists not said here			the spray of Enceladus			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through spray=Location

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

It is made of pure gold dust

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 made	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 dust	case
5	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dust	amod
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dust	compound
7	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		It				of pure gold dust	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 2

It would clean the spacecraft

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 clean	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 clean	aux
3	clean	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 spacecraft	det
5	spacecraft	spacecraft	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 clean	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clean	would	It	the spacecraft					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent spacecraft=Patient

Option 3

It shows where Saturn's hexagon is

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 shows	nsubj
2	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	2 shows	ccomp
4	Saturn	Saturn	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 hexagon	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Saturn	case
6	hexagon	hexagon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 where	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 where	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	It						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	Saturn's hexagon					where property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It comes from a hidden ocean they could sample

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 comes	nsubj
2	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	6 ocean	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 ocean	det
5	hidden	hidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ocean	amod
6	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 comes	obl
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sample	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 sample	aux
9	sample	sample	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 ocean	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	It			a hidden ocean			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from ocean=Initial_Location
2	sample	could	they	a hidden ocean not said here					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ocean=Theme

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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