Test 9 · ★★ · What comes next: the Moon, Mars and beyond

Why are scientists excited about Jupiter's and Saturn's icy moons?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: scientists · What happens: be

This is test 9 · ★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 excited	advmod
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 excited	cop
3	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 excited	nsubj
4	excited	excited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	12 moons	case
6	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Saturn	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Jupiter	case
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 Saturn	cc
9	Saturn	Saturn	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 moons	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Saturn	case
11	icy	icy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 moons	amod
12	moons	moon	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 excited	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 excited	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	scientists					about Jupiter's Saturn's icy moons; excited 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

They are made of solid gold under the ice crust

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 gold	case
5	solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 gold	amod
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl
7	under	under	ADP	_	10 crust	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 crust	det
9	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 crust	compound
10	crust	crust	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		They		the ice crust		of solid gold	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 2

They are the nearest moons to Earth after our own

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 moons	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 moons	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 moons	det
4	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 moons	amod
5	moons	moon	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 Earth	case
7	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 moons	nmod
8	after	after	ADP	_	10 own	case
9	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 own	nmod:poss
10	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 moons	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	They	the nearest moons	Earth		after our own		tree rules

Option 3

People could breathe the air on them without suits

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 breathe	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 breathe	aux
3	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 air	det
5	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 breathe	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 breathe	obl
8	without	without	ADP	_	9 suits	case
9	suits	suit	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 breathe	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	breathe	could	People	the air				on them = they; without suits	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent air=Theme on they=Destination

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Hidden oceans there might be places for life

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hidden	hidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 oceans	amod
2	oceans	ocean	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 places	nsubj
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 be	expl
4	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 be	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 places	cop
6	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 life	case
8	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 places	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	infinitive	Hidden oceans	places				for life	tree rules

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