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title: If the rings were made of rock instead of ice, how would they look? — Saturn and its rings · tree and pragmatics
description: If the rings were made of rock instead of ice, how would they look? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 12 «Saturn and its rings» 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 4 · ★ · Saturn and its rings

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If the rings were made of rock instead of ice, how would they look?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** rings · **What happens:** make, look · **To what, where:** rings

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 12 «Saturn and its rings» 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/12-saturn-and-its-rings/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:12-saturn-and-its-rings:t4:1
# text = If the rings were made of rock instead of ice, how would they look?
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	rings	ring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	advcl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	10	case	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	fixed	_	_
10	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · passive |  | the rings |  |  |  | of rock; instead ice | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **look** | would | rings *= ring* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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 {#o1}

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Much brighter and shinier than now

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:12-saturn-and-its-rings:t4:o1:1
# text = Much brighter and shinier than now
1	Much	much	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	brighter	bright	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	shinier	shiny	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	conj	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Much darker and less bright

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:12-saturn-and-its-rings:t4:o2:1
# text = Much darker and less bright
1	Much	much	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	darker	dark	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
5	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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They would be completely invisible

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:12-saturn-and-its-rings:t4:o3:1
# text = They would be completely invisible
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
4	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	invisible	invisible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | They |  |  |  |  | completely, invisible *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Exactly the same as they look now

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:12-saturn-and-its-rings:t4:o4:1
# text = Exactly the same as they look now
1	Exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | present | they |  |  |  | now |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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