Test 9 · ★★ · Pluto, the Kuiper belt, the Oort cloud and comets

honestly why do they reckon the Oort cloud's real if nobody's seen it

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: they, nobody · What happens: reckon, see · To what, where: Oort cloud, cloud

This is test 9 · ★★ 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	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	5 reckon	advmod
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 reckon	advmod
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 reckon	aux
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 reckon	nsubj
5	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cloud	det
7	Oort	Oort	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 cloud	compound
8	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reckon	obj
9	's	's	PART	_	8 cloud	case
10	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cloud	amod
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 seen	mark
12	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	14 seen	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 seen	aux
14	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 reckon	advcl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 seen	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present · do-support	they	the Oort cloud				honestly property	vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent cloud=Attribute
2	see a condition, not said to happen	present · passive	nobody	cloud					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=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

It is just a story with no reason

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	5 story	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 story	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	5 story	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 story	det
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 reason	case
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 reason	det
8	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 story	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a story				with no reason	tree rules

Option 2

It glows in the night sky

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 glows	nsubj
2	glows	glow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 sky	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sky	det
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sky	compound
6	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 glows	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glow	present	It			the night sky			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sky=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Comets keep falling in from that far away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Comets	comet	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keep	nsubj
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	falling	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 keep	xcomp
4	in	in	ADV	_	3 falling	advmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 that	case
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 falling	obl
7	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 away	advmod
8	away	away	ADV	_	2 keep	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	Comets					away property	tree rules
2	fall in	gerund	Comets not said here			that			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from that=Initial_Location

Option 4

Someone photographed it with a big telescope in 1930

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 photographed	nsubj
2	photographed	photograph	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 photographed	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 telescope	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 telescope	det
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 telescope	amod
7	telescope	telescope	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 photographed	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 1930	case
9	1930	1930	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 photographed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	photograph	past	Someone	it		1930		with a big telescope	vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in 1930=Destination

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