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title: ugh, my brother says all meteor showers come from comets. right or not — Meteors, meteorites and shooting stars · tree and pragmatics
description: ugh, my brother says all meteor showers come from comets. right or not Test 6 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 6 · Meteors, meteorites and shooting stars

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ugh, my brother says all meteor showers come from comets. right or not

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** brother, meteor showers · **What happens:** say, come · **To what, where:** comets · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 6 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:16-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars:t6:1
# text = ugh, my brother says all meteor showers come from comets. right or not
1	ugh	ugh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
7	meteor	meteor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	showers	shower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	comets	comet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
13	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | my brother |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **come** | present | all meteor showers |  |  | comets |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from comet=Initial\_Location |

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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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Not all, the Geminids come from an asteroid

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:16-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars:t6:o1:1
# text = Not all, the Geminids come from an asteroid
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Geminids	geminid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	asteroid	asteroid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | the Geminids |  |  | a asteroid |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from asteroid=Initial\_Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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No, they come from the Moon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:16-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars:t6:o2:1
# text = No, they come from the Moon
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | they |  |  | the Moon |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from moon=Initial\_Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Yes, every single one comes from a comet's tail

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:16-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars:t6:o3:1
# text = Yes, every single one comes from a comet's tail
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
4	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	comet	comet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | every single one |  |  | a comet's tail |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from tail=Initial\_Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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No, they all come from Mars

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:16-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars:t6:o4:1
# text = No, they all come from Mars
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	nsubj	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Mars	Mars	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | they |  |  | Mars |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from mars=Initial\_Location |

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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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