Test 4 · ★★ · Asteroids and the asteroid belt
You find a heavy black stone that fell from the sky. What should you call it?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: You, heavy black stone · What happens: find, fall, call · To what, where: heavy black stone, sky, stone · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 · ★★ 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
Sentence 1: You find a heavy black stone that fell from the sky.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 find | nsubj |
| 2 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 stone | det |
| 4 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stone | amod |
| 5 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stone | amod |
| 6 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 find | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 fell | nsubj |
| 8 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stone | acl:relcl |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 sky | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sky | det |
| 11 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fell | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 find | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | You | a heavy black stone | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Topic | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | a heavy black stone | the sky | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from sky=Initial_Location |
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.
Sentence 2: What should you call it?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 call | obj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 call | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 call | nsubj |
| 4 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 call | obj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 call | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | should | you | stone | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme it=Result |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A meteorite
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 meteorite | det |
| 2 | meteorite | meteorite | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A meteoroid
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 meteoroid | det |
| 2 | meteoroid | meteoroid | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A comet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 comet | det |
| 2 | comet | comet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A meteor
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 meteor | det |
| 2 | meteor | meteor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/9-asteroids-and-the-asteroid-belt/t4/