Test 5 · ★★ · What comes next: the Moon, Mars and beyond

lol why can't they just bring the Mars rocks home already

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: not bring · To what, where: Mars rocks

This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 30 «What comes next: the Moon, Mars and beyond» 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	lol	lol	INTJ	_	7 bring	discourse
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 bring	advmod
3	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 bring	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 bring	advmod
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bring	nsubj
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 bring	advmod
7	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 rocks	det
9	Mars	Mars	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 rocks	compound
10	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 bring	obj
11	home	home	ADV	_	7 bring	advmod
12	already	already	ADV	_	7 bring	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not bring	can	they	the Mars rocks				home property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent rock=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 · ← Mova's choice

The rocks would melt on Earth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rocks	det
2	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 melt	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 melt	aux
4	melt	melt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 Earth	case
6	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 melt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	would	the rocks			Earth			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Nobody collected any rocks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 collected	nsubj
2	collected	collect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	4 rocks	det
4	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 collected	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	collect	past	Nobody	any rocks					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rock=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The return plan costs a lot and has been delayed and redesigned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 plan	det
2	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 plan	compound
3	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 costs	nsubj
4	costs	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lot	det
6	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 costs	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 delayed	cc
8	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 delayed	aux
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 delayed	aux:pass
10	delayed	delay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 costs	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 redesigned	cc
12	redesigned	redesign	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 delayed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	cost	present	the return plan	a lot	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme lot=Value
2	delay	present · perfect · passive	the return plan not said here		vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V S_ING»
3	redesign	participle	the return plan not said here		tree rules

Option 4

The rocks are far too heavy for any rocket to lift off the ground of Mars

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rocks	det
2	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 heavy	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 heavy	cop
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 heavy	advmod
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 heavy	advmod
6	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 rocket	case
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 rocket	det
9	rocket	rocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heavy	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 lift	mark
11	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 heavy	advcl
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 lift	compound:prt
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 ground	det
14	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lift	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 Mars	case
16	Mars	Mars	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 ground	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the rocks					for any rocket; far, heavy property	tree rules
2	lift off	to-infinitive	the rocks not said here	the ground of Mars					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ground=Theme

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