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title: Leo reckons black holes go round space sucking up everything like a… — Black holes · tree and pragmatics
description: Leo reckons black holes go round space sucking up everything like a hoover. Is he right? Test 1 · ★★ of lesson 25 «Black holes» 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 1 · ★★ · Black holes

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Leo reckons black holes go round space sucking up everything like a hoover. Is he right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Leo, black holes, round space · **What happens:** reckon, go, suck up, be · **To what, where:** round space, everything

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This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 25 «Black holes» 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/25-black-holes/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Leo reckons black holes go round space sucking up everything like a hoover.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:25-black-holes:t1:1
# text = Leo reckons black holes go round space sucking up everything like a hoover.
1	Leo	Leo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	reckons	reckon	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	sucking	suck	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	8	obj	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	hoover	hoover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reckon** | present | Leo |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | present | black holes | round space |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location space=Theme |
| 3 | **suck up** | gerund | round space *not said here* | everything |  |  |  | like a hoover | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent everything=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:* Is he right?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:25-black-holes:t1:2
# text = Is he right?
1	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Yes, they move towards anything near them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:25-black-holes:t1:o1:1
# text = Yes, they move towards anything near them
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	move	move	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	obl	_	_
7	near	near	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | present | they |  |  | anything |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme towards anything=Trajectory |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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No, black holes have no gravity at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:25-black-holes:t1:o2:1
# text = No, black holes have no gravity at all
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	gravity	gravity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | black holes | no gravity |  | all |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gravity=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Yes, they suck in whole galaxies from anywhere in space at once

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:25-black-holes:t1:o3:1
# text = Yes, they suck in whole galaxies from anywhere in space at once
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	suck	suck	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	galaxies	galaxy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suck** | present | they |  |  | whole galaxies |  | in space | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at once=Source |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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No, far away their pull is like any star of the same mass

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:25-black-holes:t1:o4:1
# text = No, far away their pull is like any star of the same mass
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	10	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
3	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	pull	pull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	mass	mass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | their pull |  |  |  |  | like any star; of the same mass; away *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **pull** |  | their *= they* |  |  |  |  |  | nom pull «act transitive»: poss=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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