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title: Why is a rocket launched with an enormous amount of fuel? — Rockets, satellites and astronauts · tree and pragmatics
description: Why is a rocket launched with an enormous amount of fuel? Test 9 · ★★ of lesson 71 «Rockets, satellites and astronauts» 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 wrong.
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# Test 9 · ★★ · Rockets, satellites and astronauts

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Why is a rocket launched with an enormous amount of fuel?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** launch, amount · **To what, where:** rocket, fuel

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This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 71 «Rockets, satellites and astronauts» 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/71-rockets-satellites-astronauts/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:71-rockets-satellites-astronauts:t9:1
# text = Why is a rocket launched with an enormous amount of fuel?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	rocket	rocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	launched	launch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	enormous	enormous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	amount	amount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	fuel	fuel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **launch** | present · passive |  | a rocket |  |  |  | with a enormous amount of fuel | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: with amount=Instrument |
| 2 | **amount** |  |  | fuel |  |  |  |  | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient |

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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 {#o1}

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The fuel is used to make air on the Moon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:71-rockets-satellites-astronauts:t9:o1:1
# text = The fuel is used to make air on the Moon
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fuel	fuel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
7	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present · passive |  | the fuel |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | air |  | the Moon |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset air=Product |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Rockets are made heavier on purpose

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:71-rockets-satellites-astronauts:t9:o2:1
# text = Rockets are made heavier on purpose
1	Rockets	rocket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	heavier	heavy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present · passive |  | Rockets |  | purpose |  | heavy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Fuel keeps the astronauts warm

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:71-rockets-satellites-astronauts:t9:o3:1
# text = Fuel keeps the astronauts warm
1	Fuel	fuel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	astronauts	astronaut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present | Fuel | the astronauts |  |  |  | warm *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent astronaut=Theme |

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

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It must lift its own heavy weight and reach a huge speed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:71-rockets-satellites-astronauts:t9:o4:1
# text = It must lift its own heavy weight and reach a huge speed
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	lift	lift	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
5	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lift** | must | It | its own heavy weight |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Theme |
| 2 | **reach** | infinitive |  | a huge speed |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent speed=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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