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title: Why does Jupiter look like a ball of soft stripes and not like a cra… — Jupiter · tree and pragmatics
description: Why does Jupiter look like a ball of soft stripes and not like a cratered rock? Test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 10 «Jupiter» of the space course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 11 · ★★★ · Jupiter

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Why does Jupiter look like a ball of soft stripes and not like a cratered rock?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Jupiter · **What happens:** look, crater

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This is test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 10 «Jupiter» of the space 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/space/10-jupiter/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:10-jupiter:t11:1
# text = Why does Jupiter look like a ball of soft stripes and not like a cratered rock?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	stripes	stripe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
13	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	cratered	crater	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | present · do-support | Jupiter |  |  |  |  | like a ball of soft stripes and a cratered rock | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **crater** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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We see only the tops of its clouds, stretched into bands by fast winds

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:10-jupiter:t11:o1:1
# text = We see only the tops of its clouds, stretched into bands by fast winds
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	tops	top	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	bands	band	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | We | the tops of its clouds |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **stretch** | participle |  | its clouds *not said here* |  | bands |  | by fast winds | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into band=Location |
| 3 | **cloud** |  | its *= it* |  |  |  |  |  | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Its craters are painted over by rain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:10-jupiter:t11:o2:1
# text = Its craters are painted over by rain
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	craters	crater	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	over	over	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **paint over** | present · passive | rain | Its craters |  |  |  | over *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Destination |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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It is made of cloth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:10-jupiter:t11:o3:1
# text = It is made of cloth
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present · passive |  | It |  |  |  | of cloth | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Its surface is covered with sand dunes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:10-jupiter:t11:o4:1
# text = Its surface is covered with sand dunes
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	dunes	dune	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | present · passive |  | Its surface |  |  |  | with sand dunes | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with dune=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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