Test 8 · Meteors, meteorites and shooting stars
A meteorite turns out to be just like the rocks brought back by the Apollo astronauts. Where did it most likely come from?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: meteorite · What happens: turn out, be, come
This is test 8 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
Sentence 1: A meteorite turns out to be just like the rocks brought back by the Apollo astronauts.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 meteorite | det |
| 2 | meteorite | meteorite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turns | nsubj |
| 3 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 turns | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 brought | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 brought | cop |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 11 brought | advmod |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 rocks | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 rocks | det |
| 10 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 brought | obl |
| 11 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turns | advcl |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 brought | advmod |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 astronauts | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 astronauts | det |
| 15 | Apollo | Apollo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 astronauts | compound |
| 16 | astronauts | astronaut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 brought | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turns | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn out | present | a meteorite | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | a meteorite not said here | like the rocks; by the Apollo astronauts; bring property | tree rules |
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.
Sentence 2: Where did it most likely come from?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 6 come | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 come | aux |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 come | nsubj |
| 4 | most | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 come | aux |
| 5 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | 6 come | advmod |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 come | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 come | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | must · past · do-support | meteorite | likely property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The Sun
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Sun | det |
| 2 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The Moon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Moon | det |
| 2 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Jupiter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jupiter | Jupiter | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Saturn's rings
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saturn | Saturn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 rings | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Saturn | case |
| 3 | rings | ring | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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