Test 10 · ★★ · Sleep, exercise and growing up

why'd astronauts bother working out up in space

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: astronauts · What happens: bother, work out · To what, where: space

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 38 «Sleep, exercise and growing up» 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 bother	advmod
2	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	3 astronauts	punct
3	astronauts	astronaut	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bother	nsubj
4	bother	bother	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 bother	xcomp
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 working	compound:prt
7	up	up	ADV	_	5 working	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 space	case
9	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 working	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bother	present	astronauts						tree rules
2	work out	gerund	astronauts not said here			space			vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent

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

So they stay warm in the freezing cold of space

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	3 stay	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stay	nsubj
3	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 cold	advcl
4	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stay	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 freezing	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 freezing	det
7	freezing	freezing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stay	obl
8	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 space	case
10	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	present	they			the freezing		warm property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in freezing=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

So their muscles and bones stay strong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	6 stay	advmod
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 muscles	nmod:poss
3	muscles	muscle	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stay	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 bones	cc
5	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 muscles	conj
6	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stay	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	present	their muscles and bones					strong property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Because there is nothing else to do up there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 is	mark
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 is	expl
3	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 is	nsubj
5	else	else	ADV	_	4 nothing	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 nothing	acl
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 do	compound:prt
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 do	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	nothing			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do up	to-infinitive	nothing not said here			there			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

So they float the right way up in the cabin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	3 float	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 float	nsubj
3	float	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 way	det
5	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 way	amod
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 float	obj
7	up	up	ADV	_	3 float	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 cabin	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cabin	det
10	cabin	cabin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 float	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float	present	they	the right way		the cabin			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent way=Theme in cabin=Trajectory

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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