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title: Identify the first artificial satellite placed in orbit about the Ea… — Space: from Sputnik to the Moon · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the first artificial satellite placed in orbit about the Earth. Exam question 1 of lesson 35 «Space: from Sputnik to the Moon» of the history 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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# Exam question 1 · Space: from Sputnik to the Moon

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Identify the first artificial satellite placed in orbit about the Earth.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, place · **To what, where:** first artificial satellite, orbit

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 35 «Space: from Sputnik to the Moon» 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/35-space-from-sputnik-to-the-moon/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:35-space-from-sputnik-to-the-moon:e1:1
# text = Identify the first artificial satellite placed in orbit about the Earth.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
4	artificial	artificial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	satellite	satellite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	orbit	orbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the first artificial satellite |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent satellite=Theme |
| 2 | **place** | participle |  | the first artificial satellite *not said here* |  | orbit about the Earth |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in orbit=Destination |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The International Space Station

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:35-space-from-sputnik-to-the-moon:e1:o1:1
# text = The International Space Station
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	International	International	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	Space	Space	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Station	Station	PROPN	NNP	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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Apollo 11

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:35-space-from-sputnik-to-the-moon:e1:o2:1
# text = Apollo 11
1	Apollo	Apollo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	11	11	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Laika

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:35-space-from-sputnik-to-the-moon:e1:o3:1
# text = Laika
1	Laika	Laika	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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Sputnik

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:35-space-from-sputnik-to-the-moon:e1:o4:1
# text = Sputnik
1	Sputnik	sputnik	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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