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description: Grace adds up all the belt's asteroids and expects a planet bigger than the Earth. What would she really get? Test 9 · ★★ 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 cho
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# Test 9 · ★★ · Asteroids and the asteroid belt

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Grace adds up all the belt's asteroids and expects a planet bigger than the Earth. What would she really get?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Grace · **What happens:** add up, expect, get · **To what, where:** asteroids, planet

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This is test 9 · ★★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Grace adds up all the belt's asteroids and expects a planet bigger than the Earth.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:9-asteroids-and-the-asteroid-belt:t9:1
# text = Grace adds up all the belt's asteroids and expects a planet bigger than the Earth.
1	Grace	Grace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	adds	add	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	belt	belt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	asteroids	asteroid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	expects	expect	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	planet	planet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	amod	_	_
14	than	than	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **add up** *speech: assert* | present | Grace | the belt's asteroids |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent asteroid=Patient |
| 2 | **expect** | present | Grace *not said here* | a planet |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent planet=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:* What would she really get?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:9-asteroids-and-the-asteroid-belt:t9:2
# text = What would she really get?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	really	really	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | would | Grace |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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A planet bigger than Jupiter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:9-asteroids-and-the-asteroid-belt:t9:o1:1
# text = A planet bigger than Jupiter
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	planet	planet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
4	than	than	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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

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

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Much less than our Moon, only about 3 percent of its mass

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:9-asteroids-and-the-asteroid-belt:t9:o2:1
# text = Much less than our Moon, only about 3 percent of its mass
1	Much	much	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	amod	_	_
3	than	than	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	only	only	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	percent	percent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	mass	mass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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About two Moons

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:9-asteroids-and-the-asteroid-belt:t9:o3:1
# text = About two Moons
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	Moons	moon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Exactly one Earth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:9-asteroids-and-the-asteroid-belt:t9:o4:1
# text = Exactly one Earth
1	Exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	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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