Test 9 · ★★ · Rockets, satellites and astronauts

Why is a rocket launched with an enormous amount of fuel?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: launch, amount · To what, where: rocket, fuel

This is test 9 · ★★ 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	5 launched	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 launched	aux:pass
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 rocket	det
4	rocket	rocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 launched	obl:unmarked
5	launched	launch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 amount	case
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 amount	det
8	enormous	enormous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 amount	amod
9	amount	amount	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 launched	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 fuel	case
11	fuel	fuel	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 amount	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 launched	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	launch	present · passive		a rocket				with a enormous amount of fuel	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: with amount=Instrument
2	amount			fuel					nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient

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 fuel is used to make air on the Moon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fuel	det
2	fuel	fuel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 used	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 used	aux:pass
4	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 make	mark
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 used	advcl
7	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 Moon	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Moon	det
10	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 make	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present · passive		the fuel					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	make	to-infinitive		air		the Moon			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset air=Product

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Rockets are made heavier on purpose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rockets	rocket	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 made	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 made	xcomp
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 purpose	case
6	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		Rockets		purpose		heavy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 3

Fuel keeps the astronauts warm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fuel	fuel	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 astronauts	det
4	astronauts	astronaut	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keeps	obj
5	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keeps	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	Fuel	the astronauts				warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent astronaut=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It must lift its own heavy weight and reach a huge speed

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 lift	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lift	aux
3	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 weight	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 weight	amod
6	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 weight	amod
7	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lift	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 reach	cc
9	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lift	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 speed	det
11	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 speed	amod
12	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 reach	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lift	must	It	its own heavy weight					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Theme
2	reach	infinitive		a huge speed					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent speed=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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