Test 9 · ★★ · Asteroids and the asteroid belt
Grace adds up all the belt's asteroids and expects a planet bigger than the Earth. What would she really get?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Grace · What happens: add up, expect, get · To what, where: asteroids, planet
This is test 9 · ★★ 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: Grace adds up all the belt's asteroids and expects a planet bigger than the Earth.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grace | Grace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 adds | nsubj |
| 2 | adds | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 adds | compound:prt |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 asteroids | det:predet |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 belt | det |
| 6 | belt | belt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asteroids | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 belt | case |
| 8 | asteroids | asteroid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 adds | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 expects | cc |
| 10 | expects | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 adds | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 planet | det |
| 12 | planet | planet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 expects | obj |
| 13 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 planet | amod |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 Earth | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Earth | det |
| 16 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 bigger | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 adds | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add up speech: assert | present | Grace | the belt's asteroids | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent asteroid=Patient | ||||
| 2 | expect | present | Grace not said here | a planet | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent planet=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.
Sentence 2: What would she really get?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 get | obj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 get | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 get | nsubj |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 get | advmod |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | would | Grace | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A planet bigger than Jupiter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 planet | det |
| 2 | planet | planet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bigger | nsubj |
| 3 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | than | than | ADP | _ | 5 Jupiter | case |
| 5 | Jupiter | Jupiter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 bigger | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Much less than our Moon, only about 3 percent of its mass
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Much | much | ADV | _ | 2 less | advmod |
| 2 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 percent | amod |
| 3 | than | than | ADP | _ | 5 Moon | case |
| 4 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 Moon | nmod:poss |
| 5 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 less | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 percent | punct |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 percent | advmod |
| 8 | about | about | ADV | _ | 9 3 | advmod |
| 9 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 percent | nummod |
| 10 | percent | percent | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 mass | case |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 mass | nmod:poss |
| 13 | mass | mass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 percent | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
About two Moons
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 two | advmod |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 Moons | nummod |
| 3 | Moons | moon | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Exactly one Earth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 2 one | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 Earth | nummod |
| 3 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | 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.
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