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title: Ascertain the parent body of the meteor shower designated the Gemini… — Meteors, meteorites and shooting stars · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the parent body of the meteor shower designated the Geminids. Exam question 4 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 option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Exam question 4 · Meteors, meteorites and shooting stars

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Ascertain the parent body of the meteor shower designated the Geminids.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, meteor shower · **What happens:** ascertain, designate · **To what, where:** parent body, Geminids

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This is exam question 4 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/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:16-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars:e4:1
# text = Ascertain the parent body of the meteor shower designated the Geminids.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	meteor	meteor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	shower	shower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	designated	designate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Geminids	Geminid	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the parent body |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Topic |
| 2 | **designate** | past | the meteor shower | the Geminids |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent geminid=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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The planet Mars

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:16-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars:e4:o1:1
# text = The planet Mars
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	planet	planet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Mars	Mars	PROPN	NNP	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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The asteroid 3200 Phaethon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:16-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars:e4:o2:1
# text = The asteroid 3200 Phaethon
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	asteroid	asteroid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	3200	3200	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	list	_	_
4	Phaethon	Phaethon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The comet Swift-Tuttle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:16-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars:e4:o3:1
# text = The comet Swift-Tuttle
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	comet	comet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	Swift	Swift	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Tuttle	Tuttle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The comet Halley, which comes every 76 years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:16-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars:e4:o4:1
# text = The comet Halley, which comes every 76 years
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	comet	comet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	Halley	Halley	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
8	76	76	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | the comet |  |  |  | year |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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