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Test 7 · ★★ · Rockets, satellites and astronauts

An astronaut comes home after six months in space. Why might she need help to walk at first?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: astronaut · What happens: come, need, walk · To what, where: help

This is test 7 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: An astronaut comes home after six months in space.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 astronaut	det
2	astronaut	astronaut	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comes	nsubj
3	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	home	home	ADV	_	3 comes	advmod
5	after	after	ADP	_	7 months	case
6	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 months	nummod
7	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 comes	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 space	case
9	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 months	nmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 comes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	a astronaut				month	home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «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.

Sentence 2: Why might she need help to walk at first?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 need	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 need	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 need	nsubj
4	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 need	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 walk	mark
7	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 help	acl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 first	case
9	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 walk	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 need	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	might	astronaut	help					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme
2	walk	to-infinitive	astronaut not said here	help not said here					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at first=Trajectory

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The Earth's gravity grew stronger while she was away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Earth	det
2	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 gravity	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Earth	case
4	gravity	gravity	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grew	nsubj
5	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 grew	xcomp
7	while	while	SCONJ	_	10 away	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 away	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 away	cop
10	away	away	ADV	_	5 grew	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the Earth's gravity					strong property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	gravity					away property	tree rules

Option 2

Her spacesuit is still too heavy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 spacesuit	nmod:poss
2	spacesuit	spacesuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heavy	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 heavy	cop
4	still	still	ADV	_	6 heavy	advmod
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 heavy	advmod
6	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Her spacesuit				still	heavy property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Her muscles and bones grew weaker in space

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 muscles	nmod:poss
2	muscles	muscle	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grew	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 bones	cc
4	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 muscles	conj
5	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	weaker	weak	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 grew	xcomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 space	case
8	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	Her muscles and bones			space		weak property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in space=Location

Option 4

She forgot how to walk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 forgot	nsubj
2	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 walk	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 walk	mark
5	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 forgot	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past	She						tree rules
2	not walk	to-infinitive	She not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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