Test 5 · ★★ · Pluto, the Kuiper belt, the Oort cloud and comets

Why did it take until 2019 to see Arrokoth up close?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: take, see · To what, where: it, Arrokoth

This is test 5 · ★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 take	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 take	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 take	expl
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	until	until	ADP	_	6 2019	case
6	2019	2019	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 take	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 see	mark
8	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 take	advcl
9	Arrokoth	Arrokoth	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 see	obj
10	up	up	ADV	_	11 close	advmod
11	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 see	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 take	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past · do-support		it			until 2019		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	see	to-infinitive		Arrokoth				close property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer arrokoth=Stimulus

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 was hidden behind Saturn until telescopes got bigger in 2018

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 hidden	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hidden	aux:pass
3	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	behind	behind	ADP	_	5 Saturn	case
5	Saturn	Saturn	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 hidden	obl
6	until	until	SCONJ	_	8 got	mark
7	telescopes	telescope	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 got	nsubj
8	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hidden	advcl
9	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 got	xcomp
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 2018	case
11	2018	2018	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 got	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past · passive		It		Saturn			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient behind saturn=Location
2	get	past	telescopes			2018		big property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

It only formed in 2018

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 formed	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 formed	advmod
3	formed	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 2018	case
5	2018	2018	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 formed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	form	past	It			2018			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 2018=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It is so far that New Horizons needed years to get there

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	4 far	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 far	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 far	advmod
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 needed	advmod
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 needed	mark
6	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Horizons	compound
7	Horizons	Horizon	PROPN	Number=Plur	8 needed	nsubj
8	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 needed	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 get	mark
11	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 needed	advcl
12	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 get	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It			far property	tree rules
2	need	past	New Horizons		year		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	get	to-infinitive	New Horizons not said here	there			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Nobody wanted to look at it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 look	mark
4	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	Nobody						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	look not said to happen	to-infinitive	Nobody not said here					at it	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme

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