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title: In a game, Mercury is the biggest of the rocky planets. What should… — Mercury · tree and pragmatics
description: In a game, Mercury is the biggest of the rocky planets. What should it be? Test 10 of lesson 3 «Mercury» 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 10 · Mercury

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In a game, Mercury is the biggest of the rocky planets. What should it be?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Mercury, game · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** game

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This is test 10 of lesson 3 «Mercury» 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/3-mercury/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In a game, Mercury is the biggest of the rocky planets.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:3-mercury:t10:1
# text = In a game, Mercury is the biggest of the rocky planets.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	Mercury	Mercury	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	rocky	rocky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	planets	planet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Mercury |  |  | a game |  | of the rocky planets; big *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:* What should it be?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:3-mercury:t10:2
# text = What should it be?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | should | game |  |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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The second biggest planet of them all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:3-mercury:t10:o1:1
# text = The second biggest planet of them all
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
3	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
4	planet	planet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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The smallest of all the planets

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:3-mercury:t10:o2:1
# text = The smallest of all the planets
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	smallest	small	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	planets	planet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The same size as the Earth, or nearly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:3-mercury:t10:o3:1
# text = The same size as the Earth, or nearly
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Bigger than the giant planet Jupiter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:3-mercury:t10:o4:1
# text = Bigger than the giant planet Jupiter
1	Bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
2	than	than	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	planet	planet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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