Test 9 · ★ · Galaxies and the Big Bang

If a galaxy were twice as far away as another, how would its speed away from us compare?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: galaxy, you · What happens: be, compare

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 24 «Galaxies and the Big Bang» 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	_	8 away	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 galaxy	det
3	galaxy	galaxy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 away	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 away	cop
5	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 away	advmod
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 far	advmod
7	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 away	advmod
8	away	away	ADV	_	19 compare	advmod
9	as	as	ADP	_	10 another	case
10	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	8 away	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 away	punct
12	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	16 away	advmod
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 away	aux
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 speed	nmod:poss
15	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 away	nsubj
16	away	away	ADV	_	8 away	conj
17	from	from	ADP	_	18 us	case
18	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 away	obl
19	compare	compare	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	19 compare	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen	past	a galaxy					as another; away, far, twice property	tree rules
2	compare	imperative	you not said here						vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

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 would move away half as fast

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 move	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 move	aux
3	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 move	advmod
5	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	3 move	advmod
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 fast	advmod
7	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 move	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move away	would	It					away, fast, half property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It would come towards us

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 come	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 come	aux
3	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	towards	towards	ADP	_	5 us	case
5	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	would	It					towards us	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards we=Initial_Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It would move away about twice as fast

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 move	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 move	aux
3	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 move	advmod
5	about	about	ADV	_	6 twice	advmod
6	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 move	advmod
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 fast	advmod
8	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 move	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move away	would	It					away, fast, twice property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It would not move at all

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 move	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 move	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 move	advmod
4	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 move	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not move	would	It			all			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at all=Trajectory

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