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title: If a spacecraft hit a fleck of paint while orbiting at high speed, w… — What comes next: the Moon, Mars and be… · tree and pragmatics
description: If a spacecraft hit a fleck of paint while orbiting at high speed, what could happen? Test 10 · ★★ of lesson 30 «What comes next: the Moon, Mars and beyond» 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 wro
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# Test 10 · ★★ · What comes next: the Moon, Mars and beyond

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If a spacecraft hit a fleck of paint while orbiting at high speed, what could happen?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** spacecraft, high speed · **What happens:** hit, orbit, happen · **To what, where:** fleck, high speed

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This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 30 «What comes next: the Moon, Mars and beyond» 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/30-what-comes-next-the-moon-mars-and-beyond/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:30-what-comes-next-the-moon-mars-and-beyond:t10:1
# text = If a spacecraft hit a fleck of paint while orbiting at high speed, what could happen?
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	spacecraft	spacecraft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	hit	hit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fleck	fleck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	paint	paint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	orbiting	orbit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	17	nsubj	_	_
16	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hit** | past | a spacecraft | a fleck of paint |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fleck=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **orbit** | gerund | a spacecraft *not said here* |  |  | high speed |  |  | vn orbit-51.9.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **happen** | could | high speed |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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It would speed up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:30-what-comes-next-the-moon-mars-and-beyond:t10:o1:1
# text = It would speed up
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	speed	speed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speed up** | would | It |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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

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It could be damaged

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:30-what-comes-next-the-moon-mars-and-beyond:t10:o2:1
# text = It could be damaged
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	damaged	damage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **damage** | could · passive |  | It |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nothing, paint is too soft

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:30-what-comes-next-the-moon-mars-and-beyond:t10:o3:1
# text = Nothing, paint is too soft
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	paint	paint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	soft	soft	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** | present | Nothing paint |  |  |  |  | soft *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It would bounce off safely

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:30-what-comes-next-the-moon-mars-and-beyond:t10:o4:1
# text = It would bounce off safely
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	bounce	bounce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	safely	safely	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bounce off** | would | It |  |  |  |  | safely *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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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