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description: On the Earth a bathroom scale shows 30 kilograms for a girl. What would the same scale show on the Moon? Test 2 · ★★★ of lesson 10 «Thinking like an astronomer» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was
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# Test 2 · ★★★ · Thinking like an astronomer

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On the Earth a bathroom scale shows 30 kilograms for a girl. What would the same scale show on the Moon?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** bathroom scale · **What happens:** show · **To what, where:** 30 kilograms, Earth

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This is test 2 · ★★★ of lesson 10 «Thinking like an astronomer» of the world 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/world/10-reasoning-about-space/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* On the Earth a bathroom scale shows 30 kilograms for a girl.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:10-reasoning-about-space:t2:1
# text = On the Earth a bathroom scale shows 30 kilograms for a girl.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	bathroom	bathroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	scale	scale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	kilograms	kilogram	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | a bathroom scale | 30 kilograms |  | the Earth |  | for a girl | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent kilogram=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 would the same scale show on the Moon?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:10-reasoning-about-space:t2:2
# text = What would the same scale show on the Moon?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	1	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	scale	scale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	show	show	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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About 0 kilograms

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:10-reasoning-about-space:t2:o1:1
# text = About 0 kilograms
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	0	0	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	kilograms	kilogram	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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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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About 5 kilograms

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:10-reasoning-about-space:t2:o2:1
# text = About 5 kilograms
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	kilograms	kilogram	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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About 180 kilograms

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:10-reasoning-about-space:t2:o3:1
# text = About 180 kilograms
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	180	180	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	kilograms	kilogram	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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About 30 kilograms

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:10-reasoning-about-space:t2:o4:1
# text = About 30 kilograms
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	kilograms	kilogram	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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