Test 11 · ★★ · Asteroids and the asteroid belt

ugh another asteroid is gonna kill us all next week says the news. what's the real story?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: asteroid, next week · What happens: be, say · To what, where: news, real story · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★★ 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	ugh	ugh	INTJ	_	6 kill	discourse
2	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	3 asteroid	det
3	asteroid	asteroid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kill	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 kill	cop
5	gonna	gonna	PART	_	6 kill	mark
6	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 kill	obj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 week	det
9	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 week	amod
10	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 says	nsubj
11	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 kill	parataxis
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 news	det
13	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 says	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 kill	punct
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 story	nsubj
16	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 story	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 story	det
18	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 story	amod
19	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kill	parataxis
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 kill	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	another asteroid		kill property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	all next week	the news		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent news=Topic
3	is a	present		the real story		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 · ✓ the right answer

Astronomers track tens of thousands of near-Earth objects; a scary headline is not the same as a real threat

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Astronomers	astronomer	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 track	nsubj
2	track	track	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	tens	ten	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 track	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 thousands	case
5	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tens	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 objects	case
7	near	near	ADP	_	10 objects	case
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 near	punct
9	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 objects	compound
10	objects	object	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 thousands	nmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 same	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 headline	det
13	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 headline	amod
14	headline	headline	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 same	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 same	cop
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 same	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 same	det
18	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 track	conj
19	as	as	ADP	_	22 threat	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 threat	det
21	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 threat	amod
22	threat	threat	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 same	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	track	present	Astronomers	tens of thousands of Earth objects					vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ten=Theme
2	not is	present	a scary headline					as a real threat; same property	tree rules

Option 2

Yes, one hits every week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 hits	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hits	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 hits	nsubj
4	hits	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 week	det
6	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hits	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	present	one				week		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Nobody watches for asteroids

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 watches	nsubj
2	watches	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 asteroids	case
4	asteroids	asteroid	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 watches	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	present	Nobody					for asteroids	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for asteroid=Theme

Option 4

Asteroids never come near the Earth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Asteroids	asteroid	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 come	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 come	advmod
3	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	near	near	ADP	_	6 Earth	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Earth	det
6	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not come	present	Asteroids			the Earth			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near earth=Location

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