Test 11 · ★ · How the Solar System was born

why are the planets all going the same way round, did someone line em up or what

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: planets, someone · What happens: go, line up · To what, where: same way, em

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 2 «How the Solar System was born» 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	6 going	advmod
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 going	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 planets	det
4	planets	planet	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 going	nsubj
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 going	advmod
6	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 line	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 way	det
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 way	amod
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 going	obl:unmarked
10	round	round	ADV	_	6 going	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 going	punct
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 line	aux
13	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	14 line	nsubj
14	line	line	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	em	they	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 line	obj
16	up	up	ADP	_	14 line	compound:prt
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 what	cc
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 line	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present · progressive	the planets	the same way				all, round property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	line up	past · do-support	someone	em = they					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Destination

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 inherited the spin of the cloud they formed from

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 inherited	nsubj
2	inherited	inherit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 spin	det
4	spin	spin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 inherited	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 cloud	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cloud	det
7	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spin	nmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 formed	nsubj
9	formed	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cloud	acl:relcl
10	from	from	ADP	_	9 formed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	inherit	past	They	the spin of the cloud	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spin=Theme
2	form	past	they	the cloud not said here	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cloud=Theme
3	spin			the cloud	nom spin «event transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

Yes, a passing star lined them up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 lined	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 star	det
4	passing	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 star	amod
5	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lined	nsubj
6	lined	line	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lined	obj
8	up	up	ADP	_	6 lined	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	line up	past	a passing star	them = they					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Destination

Option 3

They chase each other round and round, pulled by magnetism

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 chase	nsubj
2	chase	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	2 chase	obj
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 each	fixed
5	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 chase	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 round	cc
7	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 round	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 pulled	punct
9	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 chase	parataxis
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 magnetism	case
11	magnetism	magnetism	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pulled	obl:agent

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	present	They	each				round property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Theme
2	pull	participle							vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

They are pulled along by the Moon

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 pulled	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 pulled	aux:pass
3	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	along	along	ADV	_	3 pulled	advmod
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 Moon	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Moon	det
7	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 pulled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	present · passive	the Moon	They				along property	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

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