Test 2 · ★★ · Rockets, satellites and astronauts

If a satellite slowed down a lot, what would happen?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: satellite, lot · What happens: slow down, happen · To what, where: lot

This is test 2 · ★★ 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 slowed	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 satellite	det
3	satellite	satellite	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slowed	nsubj
4	slowed	slow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 slowed	compound:prt
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 lot	det
7	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slowed	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 happen	punct
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 happen	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 happen	aux
11	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 lot	acl:relcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 slowed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slow down	participle	a satellite	a lot					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent lot=Patient
2	happen	would	a lot						vn occur-48.3-1 «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

It would fly further and further away from the Earth into space

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fly	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fly	aux
3	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	further	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 away	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 further	cc
6	further	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 away	advmod
7	away	away	ADV	_	3 fly	advmod
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 Earth	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Earth	det
10	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 away	obl
11	into	into	ADP	_	12 space	case
12	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fly	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	would	It					into space result; away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into space=Result

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

It would fall lower and could drop into the air and burn up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fall	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fall	aux
3	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 fall	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 drop	cc
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 drop	aux
7	drop	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fall	conj
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 air	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 air	det
10	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drop	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 burn	cc
12	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fall	conj
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 burn	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	fall	would	It		low property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	drop	could		the air		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into air=Trajectory
3	burn up	infinitive				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It would start to go faster and faster by itself, all on its own

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 start	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 start	aux
3	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 go	mark
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 start	xcomp
6	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 go	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 faster	cc
8	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 faster	conj
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 itself	case
10	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 go	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 all	punct
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 start	obl
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 own	case
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 own	nmod:poss
15	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 start	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	would	It	all		its own			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	go	to-infinitive						by itself = it; fast property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by itself=Location

Option 4

It would stay in exactly the same place up in the sky forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stay	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stay	aux
3	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	8 place	case
5	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	8 place	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 place	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 place	amod
8	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stay	obl
9	up	up	ADP	_	3 stay	compound:prt
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 sky	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sky	det
12	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stay	obl
13	forever	forever	ADV	_	3 stay	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay up	would	It			the same place		in the sky; forever property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location

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