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title: In 1994 a comet broke into pieces and crashed into Jupiter. What did… — Jupiter · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1994 a comet broke into pieces and crashed into Jupiter. What did telescopes see? Test 8 · ★★★ 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 right.
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# Test 8 · ★★★ · Jupiter

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In 1994 a comet broke into pieces and crashed into Jupiter. What did telescopes see?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** comet, telescopes · **What happens:** break, crash, see · **To what, where:** 1994, Jupiter

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This is test 8 · ★★★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In 1994 a comet broke into pieces and crashed into Jupiter.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:10-jupiter:t8:1
# text = In 1994 a comet broke into pieces and crashed into Jupiter.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1994	1994	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	comet	comet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	crashed	crash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | past | a comet |  |  | 1994 |  | into pieces | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1994=Location |
| 2 | **crash** | past | a comet *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into Jupiter *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into jupiter=Result |

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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 did telescopes see?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:10-jupiter:t8:2
# text = What did telescopes see?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	telescopes	telescope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past · do-support | telescopes |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |

## The options {#options}

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

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Dark scars bigger than the Earth in its clouds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:10-jupiter:t8:o1:1
# text = Dark scars bigger than the Earth in its clouds
1	Dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	scars	scar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
4	than	than	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cloud** |  | Earth |  |  |  |  |  | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A crater in its rocky surface

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:10-jupiter:t8:o2:1
# text = A crater in its rocky surface
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	crater	crater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	rocky	rocky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Jupiter exploding into rings

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:10-jupiter:t8:o3:1
# text = Jupiter exploding into rings
1	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	exploding	explode	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	rings	ring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **explode** | gerund | Jupiter |  |  | rings |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nothing, it swallowed them silently without any marks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:10-jupiter:t8:o4:1
# text = Nothing, it swallowed them silently without any marks
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	swallowed	swallow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	silently	silently	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	without	without	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	marks	mark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swallow** | past | Nothing | them *= they* |  |  |  | without any marks; silently *property* | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

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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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