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title: Why do meteors burn up so high, far above the aeroplanes? — Meteors, meteorites and shooting stars · tree and pragmatics
description: Why do meteors burn up so high, far above the aeroplanes? Test 2 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 right.
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# Test 2 · Meteors, meteorites and shooting stars

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Why do meteors burn up so high, far above the aeroplanes?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** meteors · **What happens:** burn up

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This is test 2 of lesson 16 «Meteors, meteorites and shooting stars» 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/16-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:16-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars:t2:1
# text = Why do meteors burn up so high, far above the aeroplanes?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	meteors	meteor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
10	above	above	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	aeroplanes	aeroplane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burn up** | present · do-support | meteors |  |  |  |  | far, high *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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They hit the air so fast that it glows round them high up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:16-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars:t2:o1:1
# text = They hit the air so fast that it glows round them high up
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hit	hit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	glows	glow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
10	round	round	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	high	high	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
13	up	up	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hit** | past | They | the air |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme air=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **glow** | present | air |  |  |  |  | round them *= they* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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They are lit by the Sun only up there

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:16-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars:t2:o2:1
# text = They are lit by the Sun only up there
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	lit	lit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl:agent	_	_
7	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	up	up	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
9	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lit** | present · passive | the Sun | They |  | there |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Aeroplanes shoot them down

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:16-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars:t2:o3:1
# text = Aeroplanes shoot them down
1	Aeroplanes	aeroplane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	shoot	shoot	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shoot down** | present | Aeroplanes | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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They bounce off the clouds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:16-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars:t2:o4:1
# text = They bounce off the clouds
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	bounce	bounce	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	off	off	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bounce off** | present | They | the clouds |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloud=Agent |

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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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