--- title: my grandad saw Halley's Comet in 1986. if I'm 10 now (2026), how old… — Pluto, the Kuiper belt, the Oort cloud… · tree and pragmatics description: my grandad saw Halley's Comet in 1986. if I'm 10 now (2026), how old will I be next time it's bright? Test 2 · ★★ of lesson 15 «Pluto, the Kuiper belt, the Oort cloud and comets» of the space course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/15-pluto-the-kuiper-belt-the-oort-cloud-and-comets/t2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Space](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/) / [Pluto, the Kuiper belt, the Oort cloud…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/15-pluto-the-kuiper-belt-the-oort-cloud-and-comets/) / t2 # Test 2 · ★★ · Pluto, the Kuiper belt, the Oort cloud and comets my grandad saw Halley's Comet in 1986. if I'm 10 now (2026), how old will I be next time it's bright? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** grandad, I · **What happens:** see, be · **To what, where:** Comet, 1986, 10 This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 15 «Pluto, the Kuiper belt, the Oort cloud and comets» 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/15-pluto-the-kuiper-belt-the-oort-cloud-and-comets/#t2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:space:15-pluto-the-kuiper-belt-the-oort-cloud-and-comets:t2:1 # text = my grandad saw Halley's Comet in 1986. if I'm 10 now (2026), how old will I be next time it's bright? 1 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 grandad grandad NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 Halley Halley PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 Comet Comet PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 1986 1986 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 10 if if SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 obl _ _ 14 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 13 advmod _ _ 15 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 2026 2026 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 20 advmod _ _ 20 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 21 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 22 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 23 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 28 cop _ _ 24 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl:unmarked _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 28 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | past | my grandad | Halley's Comet | | 1986 | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer comet=Stimulus | | 2 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | I | 10 | | | now | 2026 *nmod:unmarked* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | future | I | | | | time | bright *property* | tree rules | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} 10 ```conllu # sent_id = question:space:15-pluto-the-kuiper-belt-the-oort-cloud-and-comets:t2:o1:1 # text = 10 1 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} 76 ```conllu # sent_id = question:space:15-pluto-the-kuiper-belt-the-oort-cloud-and-comets:t2:o2:1 # text = 76 1 76 76 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} 45 ```conllu # sent_id = question:space:15-pluto-the-kuiper-belt-the-oort-cloud-and-comets:t2:o3:1 # text = 45 1 45 45 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} 86 ```conllu # sent_id = question:space:15-pluto-the-kuiper-belt-the-oort-cloud-and-comets:t2:o4:1 # text = 86 1 86 86 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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