Test 9 · The Moon

What would happen to the Moon's distance over a billion years?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen

This is test 9 of lesson 6 «The Moon» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	8 distance	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Moon	det
6	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 distance	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Moon	case
8	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
9	over	over	ADP	_	12 years	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 years	det
11	billion	billion	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 years	nummod
12	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would					year	to the Moon's distance	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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

It would crash into the Earth

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 crash	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 crash	aux
3	crash	crash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 Earth	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Earth	det
6	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 crash	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crash	would	It					into the Earth result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into earth=Result

Option 2

It would fly off into space at once

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 fly	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fly	aux
3	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 fly	compound:prt
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 space	case
6	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fly	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 once	case
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 fly	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly off	would	It			space			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It would be noticeably further away, drifting about 3.8 cm each year

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	6 away	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 away	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 away	cop
4	noticeably	noticeably	ADV	_	6 away	advmod
5	further	further	ADV	_	6 away	advmod
6	away	away	ADV	_	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 drifting	punct
8	drifting	drift	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 away	advcl
9	about	about	ADV	_	10 3.8	advmod
10	3.8	3.8	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 cm	nummod
11	cm	cm	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 drifting	obj
12	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	13 year	det
13	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 drifting	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	It					away, further, noticeably property	tree rules
2	drift	gerund		3.8 cm			year		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cm=Agent

Option 4

It would stay exactly as it is

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 stay	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stay	aux
3	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	3 stay	advmod
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 is	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 is	nsubj
7	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stay	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	would	It					exactly property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	be	present	it						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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