Test 6 · Meteors, meteorites and shooting stars

ugh, my brother says all meteor showers come from comets. right or not

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: brother, meteor showers · What happens: say, come · To what, where: comets · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 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	ugh	ugh	INTJ	_	5 says	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 ugh	punct
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 brother	nmod:poss
4	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 showers	det
7	meteor	meteor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 showers	compound
8	showers	shower	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 come	nsubj
9	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 says	ccomp
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 comets	case
11	comets	comet	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 come	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 right	punct
13	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 says	conj
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 not	cc
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 right	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my brother						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come	present	all meteor showers			comets			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from comet=Initial_Location

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

Not all, the Geminids come from an asteroid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 all	advmod
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Geminids	det
5	Geminids	geminid	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 come	nsubj
6	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 all	conj
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 asteroid	case
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 asteroid	det
9	asteroid	asteroid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	the Geminids			a asteroid			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from asteroid=Initial_Location

Option 2

No, they come from the Moon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 come	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 come	nsubj
4	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 Moon	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Moon	det
7	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	they			the Moon			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from moon=Initial_Location

Option 3

Yes, every single one comes from a comet's tail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 comes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 comes	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 one	det
4	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 one	amod
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 comes	nsubj
6	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	11 tail	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 comet	det
9	comet	comet	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tail	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 comet	case
11	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 comes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	every single one			a comet's tail			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from tail=Initial_Location

Option 4

No, they all come from Mars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 come	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 come	nsubj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 come	nsubj
5	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 Mars	case
7	Mars	Mars	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	they			Mars			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from mars=Initial_Location

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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