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title: You find a heavy black stone that fell from the sky. What should you… — Asteroids and the asteroid belt · tree and pragmatics
description: You find a heavy black stone that fell from the sky. What should you call it? Test 4 · ★★ of lesson 9 «Asteroids and the asteroid belt» 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 4 · ★★ · Asteroids and the asteroid belt

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You find a heavy black stone that fell from the sky. What should you call it?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** You, heavy black stone · **What happens:** find, fall, call · **To what, where:** heavy black stone, sky, stone · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 9 «Asteroids and the asteroid belt» 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/9-asteroids-and-the-asteroid-belt/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* You find a heavy black stone that fell from the sky.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:9-asteroids-and-the-asteroid-belt:t4:1
# text = You find a heavy black stone that fell from the sky.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | present | You | a heavy black stone |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Topic |
| 2 | **fall** | past | a heavy black stone |  |  | the sky |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from sky=Initial\_Location |

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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 you call it?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:9-asteroids-and-the-asteroid-belt:t4:2
# text = What should you call it?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | should | you | stone |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme it=Result |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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A meteorite

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:9-asteroids-and-the-asteroid-belt:t4:o1:1
# text = A meteorite
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	meteorite	meteorite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A meteoroid

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:9-asteroids-and-the-asteroid-belt:t4:o2:1
# text = A meteoroid
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	meteoroid	meteoroid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A comet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:9-asteroids-and-the-asteroid-belt:t4:o3:1
# text = A comet
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	comet	comet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A meteor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:9-asteroids-and-the-asteroid-belt:t4:o4:1
# text = A meteor
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	meteor	meteor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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