Test 13 · ★★ · Rockets, satellites and astronauts

my brother reckons rockets push on the air to fly. right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: brother, rockets · What happens: reckon, push, fly

This is test 13 · ★★ of lesson 71 «Rockets, satellites and astronauts» 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 brother	nmod:poss
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reckons	nsubj
3	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	rockets	rocket	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 push	nsubj
5	push	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 reckons	ccomp
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 air	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 air	det
8	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 push	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 fly	mark
10	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 push	advcl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 reckons	punct
12	right	right	INTJ	_	3 reckons	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 reckons	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	my brother		vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	push	present	rockets	on the air	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on air=Theme
3	fly	to-infinitive	rockets not said here		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, the rocket pushes hot gas backwards and the gas pushes it forwards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 pushes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rocket	det
4	rocket	rocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pushes	nsubj
5	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 gas	amod
7	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pushes	obj
8	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	5 pushes	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 pushes	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 gas	det
11	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pushes	nsubj
12	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 pushes	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 pushes	obj
14	forwards	forwards	ADV	_	12 pushes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	present	the rocket	hot gas				backwards property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gas=Theme
2	push	present	the gas	rocket				forwards property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

No, rockets are pulled up by the Sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 pulled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	rockets	rocket	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pulled	nsubj:pass
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 pulled	aux:pass
5	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 pulled	compound:prt
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 Sun	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Sun	det
9	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 pulled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull up	present · passive	the Sun	rockets					vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 3

Yes, the rocket pushes off the air below it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 pushes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rocket	det
4	rocket	rocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pushes	nsubj
5	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	8 air	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 air	det
8	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pushes	obl
9	below	below	ADV	_	5 pushes	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pushes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push off	present	the rocket	the air				below property	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent it=Theme air=Destination

Option 4

Yes, so rockets cannot fly at all once they reach space where there is no air

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 fly	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	7 fly	advmod
4	rockets	rocket	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fly	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 fly	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 fly	advmod
7	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 fly	obl
10	once	once	SCONJ	_	12 reach	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 reach	nsubj
12	reach	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 fly	advcl
13	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 reach	obj
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 is	advmod
15	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 is	expl
16	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 space	acl:relcl
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 air	det
18	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 is	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not fly	can	rockets		all	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Location
2	reach	present	rockets = rocket	space		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent space=Theme
3	be	present	no air		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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