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title: Why do people call Jupiter a cosmic pinball flipper? — Jupiter · tree and pragmatics
description: Why do people call Jupiter a cosmic pinball flipper? Test 6 · ★★★ 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 6 · ★★★ · Jupiter

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Why do people call Jupiter a cosmic pinball flipper?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** people · **What happens:** call · **To what, where:** Jupiter · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 6 · ★★★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:10-jupiter:t6:1
# text = Why do people call Jupiter a cosmic pinball flipper?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	cosmic	cosmic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	pinball	pinball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	flipper	flipper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | present · do-support | people |  | Jupiter |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent jupiter=Recipient |

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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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Its gravity flings comets and asteroids on new paths

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:10-jupiter:t6:o1:1
# text = Its gravity flings comets and asteroids on new paths
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	gravity	gravity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	flings	fling	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	comets	comet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	asteroids	asteroid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	paths	path	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fling** | present | Its gravity | comets and asteroids |  | new paths |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent comet=Theme on path=Destination |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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It spins like a ball in a machine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:10-jupiter:t6:o2:1
# text = It spins like a ball in a machine
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	spins	spin	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	machine	machine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spin** | present | It |  |  | a machine |  | like a ball | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in machine=Trajectory |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Its moons knock each other about

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:10-jupiter:t6:o3:1
# text = Its moons knock each other about
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	moons	moon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	knock	knock	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	3	obj	_	_
5	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	fixed	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **knock** | present | Its moons | each |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent each=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It bounces light off its rings like the lights in a pinball machine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:10-jupiter:t6:o4:1
# text = It bounces light off its rings like the lights in a pinball machine
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	bounces	bounce	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	rings	ring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	pinball	pinball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	machine	machine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bounce** | present | It | light |  | a pinball machine |  | off light's rings like the lights | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent light=Theme off ring=Initial\_Location in machine=Trajectory |

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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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