Test 1 · Meteors, meteorites and shooting stars

My mate made a wish on a shooting star and said a star died for it. what's actually going on

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, star · What happens: make, say, die, go on · To what, where: wish, shooting star · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 16 «Meteors, meteorites and shooting stars» 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 wish	det
5	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 star	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 star	det
8	shooting	shooting	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 star	compound
9	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 star	det
13	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 died	nsubj
14	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 died	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 going	nsubj
19	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 going	aux
20	actually	actually	ADV	_	21 going	advmod
21	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 made	conj
22	on	on	ADP	_	21 going	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	past	My mate	a wish	a shooting star		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wish=Product
2	say speech: assert	past	My mate not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	die	past	a star			for mate	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for it=Theme
4	go on	present · progressive				actually property	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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

A real star fell all the way down to the Earth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 star	det
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 star	amod
3	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	nsubj
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 way	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 way	det
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	obl:unmarked
8	down	down	ADV	_	4 fell	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	4 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	a real star	all way				to the Earth; down property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to earth=Pivot

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A grain of dust burnt up high in the air

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 grain	det
2	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 dust	case
4	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grain	nmod
5	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 grain	acl
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 burnt	compound:prt
7	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 burnt	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 air	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 air	det
10	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 burnt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burnt up	participle		a grain of dust not said here		the air		high property	tree rules

Option 3

A star exploded right next to us

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 star	det
2	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 exploded	nsubj
3	exploded	explode	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	right	right	ADV	_	5 next	advmod
5	next	next	ADV	_	3 exploded	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 us	case
7	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 exploded	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	explode	past	a star		us			next property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

A satellite crashed into the Moon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 satellite	det
2	satellite	satellite	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	crashed	crash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 satellite	acl
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 Moon	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Moon	det
6	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 crashed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crash	participle		a satellite not said here				into the Moon result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into moon=Result

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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