Test 2 · Meteors, meteorites and shooting stars

Why do meteors burn up so high, far above the aeroplanes?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: meteors · What happens: burn up

This is test 2 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 burn	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 burn	aux
3	meteors	meteor	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 burn	nsubj
4	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 burn	compound:prt
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 high	advmod
7	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 burn	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 far	punct
9	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 burn	advmod
10	above	above	ADP	_	12 aeroplanes	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 aeroplanes	det
12	aeroplanes	aeroplane	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 far	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 burn	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn up	present · do-support	meteors					far, high property	vn light_emission-43.1 «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 · ✓ the right answer

They hit the air so fast that it glows round them high up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hit	nsubj
2	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 air	det
4	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hit	obj
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 fast	advmod
6	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 hit	advmod
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 glows	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 glows	nsubj
9	glows	glow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 hit	advcl
10	round	round	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 glows	obl
12	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 up	advmod
13	up	up	ADV	_	9 glows	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	past	They	the air				fast property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme air=Co-Theme
2	glow	present	air					round them = they	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

They are lit by the Sun only up there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lit	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lit	aux:pass
3	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 Sun	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Sun	det
6	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 lit	obl:agent
7	only	only	ADV	_	8 up	advmod
8	up	up	ADV	_	3 lit	advmod
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 lit	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lit	present · passive	the Sun	They		there			tree rules

Option 3

Aeroplanes shoot them down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aeroplanes	aeroplane	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 shoot	nsubj
2	shoot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shoot	obj
4	down	down	ADP	_	2 shoot	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shoot down	present	Aeroplanes	them = they					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4

They bounce off the clouds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bounce	nsubj
2	bounce	bounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	5 clouds	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 clouds	det
5	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bounce	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bounce off	present	They	the clouds					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloud=Agent

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