Test 4 · The history of space exploration

Why is the V-2 a sad part of space history?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: V · What happens: be

This is test 4 of lesson 29 «The history of space exploration» 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=Rel	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 V	det
4	V	v	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	nsubj
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 2	punct
6	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 V	flat
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 part	det
8	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 part	amod
9	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 history	case
11	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 history	compound
12	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 part	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the V					why property	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 · ← Mova's choice

It carried the very first astronauts up into space and then crashed

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 carried	nsubj
2	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 astronauts	det
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 first	advmod
5	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 astronauts	amod
6	astronauts	astronaut	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 carried	obj
7	up	up	ADV	_	2 carried	advmod
8	into	into	ADP	_	9 space	case
9	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carried	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 crashed	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 crashed	advmod
12	crashed	crash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 carried	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past	It	the first astronauts		space			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent astronaut=Theme
2	crash	past					then		vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

It was built only by children

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 built	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 built	aux:pass
3	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 children	advmod
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 children	case
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 built	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	past · passive	children	It					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It was a weapon built partly by prisoners, thousands of whom died

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 weapon	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 weapon	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 weapon	det
4	weapon	weapon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 weapon	acl
6	partly	partly	ADV	_	5 built	advmod
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 prisoners	case
8	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 built	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 thousands	punct
10	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 died	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 whom	case
12	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 thousands	nmod
13	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 weapon	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a weapon		tree rules
2	build	participle		a weapon not said here	by prisoners; partly property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	die	past	thousands			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4

It never reached space

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 reached	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 reached	advmod
3	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reached	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not reach	past	It	space					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent space=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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