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title: Ascertain the identity of the first human being to journey into oute… — Space: from Sputnik to the Moon · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the identity of the first human being to journey into outer space. Exam question 2 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 2 · Space: from Sputnik to the Moon

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Ascertain the identity of the first human being to journey into outer space.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** ascertain, be · **To what, where:** identity, outer space

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This is exam question 2 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/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:35-space-from-sputnik-to-the-moon:e2:1
# text = Ascertain the identity of the first human being to journey into outer space.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	identity	identity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
6	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	amod	_	_
7	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	cop	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the identity |  | outer space |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent identity=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | of the first human journey | tree rules |

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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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Buzz Aldrin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:35-space-from-sputnik-to-the-moon:e2:o1:1
# text = Buzz Aldrin
1	Buzz	buzz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Aldrin	Aldrin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Valentina Tereshkova

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:35-space-from-sputnik-to-the-moon:e2:o2:1
# text = Valentina Tereshkova
1	Valentina	Valentina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Tereshkova	Tereshkova	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Yuri Gagarin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:35-space-from-sputnik-to-the-moon:e2:o3:1
# text = Yuri Gagarin
1	Yuri	Yuri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Gagarin	Gagarin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Neil Armstrong

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:35-space-from-sputnik-to-the-moon:e2:o4:1
# text = Neil Armstrong
1	Neil	Neil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Armstrong	Armstrong	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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