Test 4 · ★ · How the Solar System was born

If the young Earth had formed out beyond the frost line, what might have happened?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: young Earth, frost line · What happens: form out, happen · To what, where: frost line

This is test 4 · ★ 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 formed	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Earth	det
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Earth	amod
4	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 formed	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 formed	aux
6	formed	form	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 formed	compound:prt
8	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	11 line	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 line	det
10	frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 line	compound
11	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 formed	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 happened	punct
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 happened	nsubj
14	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 happened	aux
15	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 happened	aux
16	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 line	conj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 formed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	form out	past · perfect	the young Earth			the frost line			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beyond line=Location
2	happen	might · perfect	the frost line						vn occur-48.3-1 «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

Nothing, every planet ends up the same

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 ends	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 planet	det
4	planet	planet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ends	nsubj
5	ends	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 ends	compound:prt
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 same	det
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ends	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end up	present	Nothing	the same					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient same=Result

Option 2

It would have become a star

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	4 become	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 become	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 become	aux
4	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 star	det
6	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would · perfect	It	a star					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It could have grabbed ice as well as rock and grown much bigger

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	4 grabbed	nsubj:pass
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grabbed	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 grabbed	aux
4	grabbed	grab	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grabbed	obj
6	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	9 rock	cc
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 as	fixed
8	as	as	ADP	_	6 as	fixed
9	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grabbed	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 grown	cc
11	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 grabbed	conj
12	much	much	ADV	_	13 bigger	advmod
13	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 grown	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	could · perfect · passive		It					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary ice=Theme
2	grow	participle						big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It would have been made only of metal

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 made	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 made	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 made	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 made	aux:pass
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	only	only	ADV	_	8 metal	advmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 metal	case
8	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	would · perfect · passive		It				of metal	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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