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title: A cartoon shows the inside of the Earth as hollow with a little sun… — The Earth as a planet · tree and pragmatics
description: A cartoon shows the inside of the Earth as hollow with a little sun in the middle. What is really there? Test 6 of lesson 5 «The Earth as a planet» 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 6 · The Earth as a planet

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A cartoon shows the inside of the Earth as hollow with a little sun in the middle. What is really there?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** cartoon · **What happens:** show, be · **To what, where:** inside

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This is test 6 of lesson 5 «The Earth as a planet» 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/5-the-earth-as-a-planet/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A cartoon shows the inside of the Earth as hollow with a little sun in the middle.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:5-the-earth-as-a-planet:t6:1
# text = A cartoon shows the inside of the Earth as hollow with a little sun in the middle.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	inside	inside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	hollow	hollow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | a cartoon | the inside of the Earth |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent inside=Recipient |

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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 is really there?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:5-the-earth-as-a-planet:t6:2
# text = What is really there?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	really	really	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	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 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Empty space with dinosaurs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:5-the-earth-as-a-planet:t6:o1:1
# text = Empty space with dinosaurs
1	Empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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An ocean of water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:5-the-earth-as-a-planet:t6:o2:1
# text = An ocean of water
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A huge ball of ice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:5-the-earth-as-a-planet:t6:o3:1
# text = A huge ball of ice
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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A solid iron inner core inside a liquid iron outer core

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:5-the-earth-as-a-planet:t6:o4:1
# text = A solid iron inner core inside a liquid iron outer core
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	solid	solid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	inner	inner	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	core	core	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	liquid	liquid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	core	core	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

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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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