Test 10 · ★ · Distances and light years

Why is the football model of the solar system hard to fit in a school field?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, fit · To what, where: football model, school field

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 22 «Distances and light years» 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 model	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 model	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 model	det
4	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 model	compound
5	model	model	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 system	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 system	det
8	solar	solar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 system	amod
9	system	system	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 model	nmod
10	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 system	amod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 fit	mark
12	fit	fit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 hard	xcomp
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 field	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 field	det
15	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 field	compound
16	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fit	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 model	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the football model				of the solar system	tree rules
2	fit	to-infinitive				a school field			vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in field=Trajectory

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 Sun football would be too heavy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 football	det
2	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 football	compound
3	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 heavy	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 heavy	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 heavy	cop
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 heavy	advmod
7	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	the Sun football					heavy property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Even the nearest star would be thousands of kilometres off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Even	even	ADV	_	4 star	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 star	det
3	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 star	amod
4	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thousands	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 thousands	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 thousands	cop
7	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 kilometres	case
9	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 thousands	nmod
10	off	off	ADV	_	7 thousands	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	would	the nearest star	thousands				of kilometres; off property	tree rules

Option 3

The peppercorn would be far too big to fit on the field at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 peppercorn	det
2	peppercorn	peppercorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 big	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 big	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 big	cop
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 big	advmod
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 big	advmod
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 fit	mark
9	fit	fit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 big	advcl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 field	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 field	det
12	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fit	obl
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 all	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 fit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	the peppercorn					big, far property	tree rules
2	fit	to-infinitive	the peppercorn not said here			the field		at all	vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent on field=Trajectory

Option 4

The planets would all touch each other

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 planets	det
2	planets	planet	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 touch	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 touch	aux
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 touch	advmod
5	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	5 touch	obj
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 each	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	touch	would	the planets	each				all property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme each=Co-Theme

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