Test 13 · ★★★ · Thinking like an astronomer

Mia reckons you'd weigh less on the moon cos your mass goes down. right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mia, you, mass · What happens: reckon, weigh, co, go down · To what, where: moon

This is test 13 · ★★★ of lesson 10 «Thinking like an astronomer» of the world 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	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 reckons	nsubj
2	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 weigh	nsubj
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 weigh	aux
5	weigh	weigh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 reckons	xcomp
6	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 weigh	advmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 moon	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 moon	det
9	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cos	obl
10	cos	co	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 weigh	advcl
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 mass	nmod:poss
12	mass	mass	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 goes	nsubj
13	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 cos	ccomp
14	down	down	ADV	_	13 goes	advmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 reckons	punct
16	right	right	INTJ	_	2 reckons	discourse
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 reckons	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	Mia			vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	weigh	would	you		less property	vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
3	co	present	you not said here	the moon		tree rules
4	go down	present	your mass		down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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

Yes, both your mass and your weight halve up there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	9 halve	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	5 mass	det
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mass	nmod:poss
5	mass	mass	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 halve	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 weight	cc
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 weight	nmod:poss
8	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mass	conj
9	halve	halve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 halve	compound:prt
11	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 halve	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	halve up	infinitive	your mass and your weight			there			vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, your mass stays the same; the Moon pulls less

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 stays	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 stays	punct
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mass	nmod:poss
4	mass	mass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stays	nsubj
5	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 same	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stays	xcomp
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 pulls	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Moon	det
10	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 pulls	nsubj
11	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 stays	advcl
12	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 pulls	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	present	your mass					same property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pull	present	the Moon					less property	vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Yes, you lose some of your mass when you go into space

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 lose	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 lose	nsubj
4	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 lose	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 mass	case
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mass	nmod:poss
8	mass	mass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 some	nmod
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 go	advmod
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 go	nsubj
11	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lose	advcl
12	into	into	ADP	_	13 space	case
13	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present	you	some					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Eventuality
2	go	present	you			space			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into space=Initial_Location

Option 4

No, you'd weigh more there because the Moon is smaller

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 weigh	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 weigh	nsubj
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 weigh	aux
5	weigh	weigh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 there	advmod
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 weigh	advmod
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 smaller	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Moon	det
10	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 smaller	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 smaller	cop
12	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 weigh	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weigh	would	you			there			vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	the Moon					small property	tree rules

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