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title: Why is the football model of the solar system hard to fit in a schoo… — Distances and light years · tree and pragmatics
description: Why is the football model of the solar system hard to fit in a school field? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 22 «Distances and light years» 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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# Test 10 · ★ · Distances and light years

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Why is the football model of the solar system hard to fit in a school field?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be, fit · **To what, where:** football model, school field

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 22 «Distances and light years» 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/22-distances-and-light-years/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:22-distances-and-light-years:t10:1
# text = Why is the football model of the solar system hard to fit in a school field?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	model	model	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	solar	solar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	fit	fit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the football model |  |  |  | of the solar system | tree rules |
| 2 | **fit** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | a school field |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in field=Trajectory |

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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 Sun football would be too heavy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:22-distances-and-light-years:t10:o1:1
# text = The Sun football would be too heavy
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | the Sun football |  |  |  |  | heavy *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Even the nearest star would be thousands of kilometres off

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:22-distances-and-light-years:t10:o2:1
# text = Even the nearest star would be thousands of kilometres off
1	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	nearest	near	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
4	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
7	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	off	off	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | would | the nearest star | thousands |  |  |  | of kilometres; off *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The peppercorn would be far too big to fit on the field at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:22-distances-and-light-years:t10:o3:1
# text = The peppercorn would be far too big to fit on the field at all
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	peppercorn	peppercorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
5	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	fit	fit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | the peppercorn |  |  |  |  | big, far *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **fit** | to-infinitive | the peppercorn *not said here* |  |  | the field |  | at all | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent on field=Trajectory |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The planets would all touch each other

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:22-distances-and-light-years:t10:o4:1
# text = The planets would all touch each other
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	planets	planet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	all	all	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	touch	touch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	5	obj	_	_
7	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	fixed	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **touch** | would | the planets | each |  |  |  | all *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme each=Co-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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