Test 3 · ★★ · Rockets, satellites and astronauts

Why could a jet plane not fly to the Moon?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: jet plane · What happens: not fly

This is test 3 · ★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 fly	advmod
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 fly	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 plane	det
4	jet	jet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 plane	compound
5	plane	plane	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fly	nsubj
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 fly	advmod
7	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 Moon	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Moon	det
10	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 fly	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 fly	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not fly	could	a jet plane					to the Moon result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to moon=Result

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

The Moon is too close for a plane

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Moon	det
2	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 close	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 close	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 close	advmod
5	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 plane	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 plane	det
8	plane	plane	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 close	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the Moon					for a plane; close property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Planes are too small to see the Moon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Planes	plane	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 small	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 small	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 small	advmod
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 see	mark
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 small	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Moon	det
8	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Planes					small property	tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive	Planes not said here	the Moon					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer moon=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Its engines need air, and space has none

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 engines	nmod:poss
2	engines	engine	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 need	nsubj
3	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 need	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 has	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 has	cc
7	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 has	nsubj
8	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 need	parataxis
9	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	8 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	Its engines	air					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot air=Theme
2	have	present	space	none					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Patient

Option 4

Planes cannot fly at night, when the Moon is out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Planes	plane	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fly	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fly	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 fly	advmod
4	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 night	case
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fly	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 out	punct
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 out	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Moon	det
10	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 out	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 out	cop
12	out	out	ADV	_	4 fly	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not fly	can	Planes				night		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	the Moon					out property	tree rules

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