Test 12 · ★★ · Pluto, the Kuiper belt, the Oort cloud and comets
lol Rosetta landed on a comet? no way. what did it really do
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Rosetta, way · What happens: land, do · To what, where: way, comet
This is test 12 · ★★ of lesson 15 «Pluto, the Kuiper belt, the Oort cloud and comets» 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 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 3 landed | discourse |
| 2 | Rosetta | Rosetta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 landed | nsubj |
| 3 | landed | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 comet | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 comet | det |
| 6 | comet | comet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 landed | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 landed | punct |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 way | det |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 landed | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 landed | punct |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 do | obj |
| 12 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 do | aux |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 do | nsubj |
| 14 | really | really | ADV | _ | 15 do | advmod |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 landed | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | land | past | Rosetta | no way | a comet | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on comet=Destination | |||
| 2 | do | past · do-support | way | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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
Scooped up a comet and brought it back to the Earth whole
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scooped | scoop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Scooped | compound:prt |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 comet | det |
| 4 | comet | comet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Scooped | obl:agent |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 brought | cc |
| 6 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Scooped | conj |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 brought | obj |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 brought | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Earth | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Earth | det |
| 11 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 brought | obl |
| 12 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 brought | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scoop up | participle | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | bring back | past | comet | the Earth | whole property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to earth=Destination |
Option 2
Crashed into Halley's Comet on purpose to see inside it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Crashed | crash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 Comet | case |
| 3 | Halley | Halley | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Comet | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Halley | case |
| 5 | Comet | comet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Crashed | obl:agent |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 purpose | case |
| 7 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Crashed | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 see | mark |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Crashed | advcl |
| 10 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 see | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crash | participle | purpose | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on purpose=Location | |||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | purpose | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 3
Flew past Pluto taking photos of its heart-shaped plain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | past | past | ADP | _ | 3 Pluto | case |
| 3 | Pluto | Pluto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Flew | obl |
| 4 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Flew | advcl |
| 5 | photos | photo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 taking | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 plain | case |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 plain | nmod:poss |
| 8 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shaped | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 heart | punct |
| 10 | shaped | shape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 plain | amod |
| 11 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 photos | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | Pluto | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past pluto=Trajectory | |||||
| 2 | take | gerund | photos of its shaped plain | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent photo=Theme | |||||
| 3 | shape | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Orbited Comet 67P and dropped the Philae lander on it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Orbited | orbit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 dropped | advcl |
| 2 | Comet | comet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 P | compound |
| 3 | 67 | 67 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 Comet | flat |
| 4 | P | p | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Orbited | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 dropped | cc |
| 6 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lander | det |
| 8 | Philae | Philae | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 lander | compound |
| 9 | lander | lander | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dropped | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 dropped | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | orbit | participle | Comet P | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | drop | past | the Philae lander | lander | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lander=Theme on it=Destination |
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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