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description: In a cartoon, a rocket orbits the Earth slowly, just faster than a car. What's wrong? Test 2 · ★★★ of lesson 38 «Rockets, record speeds and motion everywhere» of the physics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was
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# Test 2 · ★★★ · Rockets, record speeds and motion everywhere

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In a cartoon, a rocket orbits the Earth slowly, just faster than a car. What's wrong?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** rocket · **What happens:** orbit, be · **To what, where:** Earth, cartoon

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This is test 2 · ★★★ of lesson 38 «Rockets, record speeds and motion everywhere» of the physics 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/physics/38-rockets-record-speeds-and-motion-everywhere/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In a cartoon, a rocket orbits the Earth slowly, just faster than a car.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:38-rockets-record-speeds-and-motion-everywhere:t2:1
# text = In a cartoon, a rocket orbits the Earth slowly, just faster than a car.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	rocket	rocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	orbits	orbit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	just	just	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
14	than	than	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **orbit** | present | a rocket | the Earth |  | a cartoon |  | fast, slowly *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What's wrong?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:38-rockets-record-speeds-and-motion-everywhere:t2:2
# text = What's wrong?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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It would need to go about 28,000 kilometres an hour or it would fall

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:38-rockets-record-speeds-and-motion-everywhere:t2:o1:1
# text = It would need to go about 28,000 kilometres an hour or it would fall
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	28,000	28,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:unmarked	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | would | It |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **go about** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | 28,000 kilometres  a hour |  |  |  |  | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fall** | would | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It would float away from the Earth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:38-rockets-record-speeds-and-motion-everywhere:t2:o2:1
# text = It would float away from the Earth
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	float	float	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **float away** | would | It |  |  | the Earth |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from earth=Trajectory |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It would orbit even if it stopped

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:38-rockets-record-speeds-and-motion-everywhere:t2:o3:1
# text = It would orbit even if it stopped
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	orbit	orbit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	even	even	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **orbit** | would | It |  |  |  |  |  | vn orbit-51.9.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stop** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nothing, rockets orbit slowly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:38-rockets-record-speeds-and-motion-everywhere:t2:o4:1
# text = Nothing, rockets orbit slowly
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	rockets	rocket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	orbit	orbit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **orbit** | present | Nothing rockets |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn orbit-51.9.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |

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**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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