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title: A meteorite turns out to be just like the rocks brought back by the… — Meteors, meteorites and shooting stars · tree and pragmatics
description: A meteorite turns out to be just like the rocks brought back by the Apollo astronauts. Where did it most likely come from? Test 8 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 op
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# Test 8 · Meteors, meteorites and shooting stars

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A meteorite turns out to be just like the rocks brought back by the Apollo astronauts. Where did it most likely come from?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** meteorite · **What happens:** turn out, be, come

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This is test 8 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A meteorite turns out to be just like the rocks brought back by the Apollo astronauts.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:16-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars:t8:1
# text = A meteorite turns out to be just like the rocks brought back by the Apollo astronauts.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	meteorite	meteorite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
7	just	just	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
11	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
12	back	back	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Apollo	Apollo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	astronauts	astronaut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn out** | present | a meteorite |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | a meteorite *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like the rocks; by the Apollo astronauts; bring *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Where did it most likely come from?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:16-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars:t8:2
# text = Where did it most likely come from?
1	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	6	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	most	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | must · past · do-support | meteorite |  |  |  |  | likely *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The Sun

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:16-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars:t8:o1:1
# text = The Sun
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Sun	Sun	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 Moon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:16-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars:t8:o2:1
# text = The Moon
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	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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Jupiter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:16-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars:t8:o3:1
# text = Jupiter
1	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	NNP	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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Saturn's rings

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:16-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars:t8:o4:1
# text = Saturn's rings
1	Saturn	Saturn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	rings	ring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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