Test 9 · Meteors, meteorites and shooting stars

Why was the Winchcombe meteorite so valuable to scientists?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: Winchcombe meteorite

This is test 9 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	5 meteorite	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 meteorite	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 meteorite	det
4	Winchcombe	Winchcombe	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 meteorite	compound
5	meteorite	meteorite	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 valuable	advmod
7	valuable	valuable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 meteorite	amod
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 scientists	case
9	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 valuable	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 meteorite	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the Winchcombe meteorite					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.

The options

Option 1

It came all the way from another galaxy far from ours

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 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 way	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 way	det
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl:unmarked
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 galaxy	case
7	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	8 galaxy	det
8	galaxy	galaxy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
9	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 came	advmod
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 ours	case
11	ours	our	PRON	Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 far	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	It	all way		another galaxy		far property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from galaxy=Initial_Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It was the biggest meteorite that anyone has ever found

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 meteorite	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 meteorite	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 meteorite	det
4	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 meteorite	amod
5	meteorite	meteorite	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 found	nsubj:pass
7	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 found	nsubj:pass
8	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 found	aux
9	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	10 found	advmod
10	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 meteorite	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	the biggest meteorite					tree rules
2	find	present · perfect · passive		the biggest meteorite			ever		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It was found within hours, so it was very fresh

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	3 found	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 found	aux:pass
3	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	within	within	ADP	_	5 hours	case
5	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 found	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fresh	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	11 fresh	advmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 fresh	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 fresh	cop
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 fresh	advmod
11	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 found	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past · passive		It			hour		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
2	is	past	it					fresh property	tree rules

Option 4

It was made of solid gold, right the way through it

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	3 made	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 gold	case
5	solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 gold	amod
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 way	punct
8	right	right	INTJ	_	10 way	discourse
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 way	det
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl
11	through	through	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 way	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive		It				of solid gold; the way through way obl	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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