--- title: Identify the astronomer who in fifteen hundred and forty-three advan… — The age of science · tree and pragmatics description: Identify the astronomer who in fifteen hundred and forty-three advanced the proposition that the Earth revolves about the Sun. Exam question 1 of lesson 29 «The age of science» of the history course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/29-the-age-of-science/e1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/) / [The age of science](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/29-the-age-of-science/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · The age of science Identify the astronomer who in fifteen hundred and forty-three advanced the proposition that the Earth revolves about the Sun. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, astronomer, Earth · **What happens:** identify, advance, revolve · **To what, where:** astronomer, proposition, fifteen hundred This is exam question 1 of lesson 29 «The age of science» of the history course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/history/29-the-age-of-science/#e1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:29-the-age-of-science:e1:1 # text = Identify the astronomer who in fifteen hundred and forty-three advanced the proposition that the Earth revolves about the Sun. 1 Identify identify VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 astronomer astronomer NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 fifteen fifteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 compound _ _ 7 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 forty forty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 conj _ _ 12 advanced advance VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 proposition proposition NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 that that SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 revolves revolve VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 19 about about ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 Sun. Sunday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the astronomer | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent astronomer=Theme | | 2 | **advance** | past | the astronomer | the proposition | | fifteen hundred | | | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer proposition=Patient | | 3 | **revolve** | present | the Earth | | | | sunday | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} William Harvey ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:29-the-age-of-science:e1:o1:1 # text = William Harvey 1 William William PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 Harvey Harvey PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Nicolaus Copernicus ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:29-the-age-of-science:e1:o2:1 # text = Nicolaus Copernicus 1 Nicolaus Nicolaus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 Copernicus Copernicus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Isaac Newton ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:29-the-age-of-science:e1:o3:1 # text = Isaac Newton 1 Isaac Isaac PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 Newton Newton PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Charles Darwin ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:29-the-age-of-science:e1:o4:1 # text = Charles Darwin 1 Charles Charles PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 Darwin Darwin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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