Test 10 · ★★ · Asteroids and the asteroid belt

Why is Ceres no longer called just an asteroid?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, call · To what, where: Ceres · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 9 «Asteroids and the asteroid belt» 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	6 called	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 Ceres	cop
3	Ceres	Cere	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 called	nsubj:pass
4	no	no	ADV	_	5 longer	advmod
5	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 called	advmod
6	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	just	just	ADV	_	9 asteroid	advmod
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 asteroid	det
9	asteroid	asteroid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 called	xcomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 called	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		Ceres					tree rules
2	call	participle · passive		Ceres				long property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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 orbits 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	2 orbits	nsubj
2	orbits	orbit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Earth	det
4	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 orbits	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	orbit	present	It	the Earth					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It is big and round enough to be classed as a dwarf planet

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 big	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 big	cop
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 round	cc
5	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 big	conj
6	enough	enough	ADV	_	3 big	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	9 classed	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 classed	aux:pass
9	classed	class	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 big	advcl
10	as	as	ADP	_	13 planet	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 planet	det
12	dwarf	dwarf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 planet	amod
13	planet	planet	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 classed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	It	big, enough property	tree rules
2	be				tree rules
3	class	to-infinitive · passive		as a dwarf planet goal	vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP PP.goal»: as planet=Goal

Option 3

It is made of ice and has a tail

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 made	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing 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	_	5 ice	case
5	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 has	cc
7	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 made	conj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tail	det
9	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		It				of ice	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	have	present		a tail					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient

Option 4

It has a ring and two moons

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 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 ring	det
4	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 moons	cc
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 moons	nummod
7	moons	moon	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ring	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	It	a ring and two moons					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Patient

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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