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title: Identify the designation applied to a body of extraterrestrial rock… — Meteors, meteorites and shooting stars · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the designation applied to a body of extraterrestrial rock which has reached the surface of the Earth. Exam question 1 of lesson 16 «Meteors, meteorites and shooting stars» of the space course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opti
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# Exam question 1 · Meteors, meteorites and shooting stars

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Identify the designation applied to a body of extraterrestrial rock which has reached the surface of the Earth.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, extraterrestrial rock · **What happens:** identify, apply, reach · **To what, where:** designation, surface

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 16 «Meteors, meteorites and shooting stars» of the space course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/16-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:16-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars:e1:1
# text = Identify the designation applied to a body of extraterrestrial rock which has reached the surface of the Earth.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	designation	designation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	applied	apply	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	extraterrestrial	extraterrestrial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	reached	reach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the designation |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent designation=Theme |
| 2 | **apply** | participle |  | the designation *not said here* |  |  |  | to a body of extraterrestrial rock | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **reach** | present · perfect | extraterrestrial rock | the surface of the Earth |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent surface=Theme |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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A comet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:16-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars:e1:o1:1
# text = A comet
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	comet	comet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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A meteorite

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:16-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars:e1:o2:1
# text = A meteorite
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	meteorite	meteorite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A meteoroid

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:16-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars:e1:o3:1
# text = A meteoroid
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	meteoroid	meteoroid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A meteor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:16-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars:e1:o4:1
# text = A meteor
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	meteor	meteor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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