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title: Spin a ball of pizza dough and it spreads out flat. What in the Sola… — How the Solar System was born · tree and pragmatics
description: Spin a ball of pizza dough and it spreads out flat. What in the Solar System's story is like that? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 2 «How the Solar System was born» 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 · ★ · How the Solar System was born

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Spin a ball of pizza dough and it spreads out flat. What in the Solar System's story is like that?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, ball · **What happens:** spin, spread out, be · **To what, where:** ball

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 2 «How the Solar System was born» 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/2-how-the-solar-system-was-born/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Spin a ball of pizza dough and it spreads out flat.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:2-how-the-solar-system-was-born:t2:1
# text = Spin a ball of pizza dough and it spreads out flat.
1	Spin	spin	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	pizza	pizza	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	dough	dough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	spreads	spread	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	flat	flat	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spin** | imperative | you *not said here* | a ball of pizza dough |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ball=Theme |
| 2 | **spread out** | present | ball |  |  |  |  | flat *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «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.

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*Sentence 2:* What in the Solar System's story is like that?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:2-how-the-solar-system-was-born:t2:2
# text = What in the Solar System's story is like that?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Solar	Solar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	System	System	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | like that | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The spinning cloud flattening into a disc

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:2-how-the-solar-system-was-born:t2:o1:1
# text = The spinning cloud flattening into a disc
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	spinning	spin	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	flattening	flatten	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	disc	disc	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spin** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **flatten** | gerund | the spinning cloud *not said here* |  |  | a disc |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The Moon being knocked off the Earth by a crash

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:2-how-the-solar-system-was-born:t2:o2:1
# text = The Moon being knocked off the Earth by a crash
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	knocked	knock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	crash	crash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **knock off** | gerund · passive | a crash | the Moon |  |  |  | off the Earth | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The planets crashing together into bigger ones

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:2-how-the-solar-system-was-born:t2:o3:1
# text = The planets crashing together into bigger ones
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	planets	planet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	crashing	crash	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	together	together	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crash** | gerund | the planets |  |  |  |  | into bigger ones *result*; together *property* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into one=Result |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The Sun slowly cooling down after it switched on

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:2-how-the-solar-system-was-born:t2:o4:1
# text = The Sun slowly cooling down after it switched on
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	cooling	cool	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	down	down	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	switched	switch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cool down** | gerund | the Sun |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **switch on** | past | Sun |  |  |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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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