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title: Gagarin went round the Earth once in 108 minutes. Roughly how long i… — Space: from Sputnik to the Moon · tree and pragmatics
description: Gagarin went round the Earth once in 108 minutes. Roughly how long is that? Test 8 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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# Test 8 · Space: from Sputnik to the Moon

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Gagarin went round the Earth once in 108 minutes. Roughly how long is that?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Gagarin · **What happens:** go, be · **To what, where:** Earth

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This is test 8 of lesson 35 «Space: from Sputnik to the Moon» of the history 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/history/35-space-from-sputnik-to-the-moon/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Gagarin went round the Earth once in 108 minutes.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:35-space-from-sputnik-to-the-moon:t8:1
# text = Gagarin went round the Earth once in 108 minutes.
1	Gagarin	Gagarin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	round	round	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	2	advmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	108	108	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Gagarin |  |  | the Earth | minute | once *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme round earth=Initial\_Location |

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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:* Roughly how long is that?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:35-space-from-sputnik-to-the-moon:t8:2
# text = Roughly how long is that?
1	Roughly	roughly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
3	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | long, roughly *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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About a week

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:35-space-from-sputnik-to-the-moon:t8:o1:1
# text = About a week
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	week	week	NOUN	NN	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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About a day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:35-space-from-sputnik-to-the-moon:t8:o2:1
# text = About a day
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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Just under two hours

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:35-space-from-sputnik-to-the-moon:t8:o3:1
# text = Just under two hours
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	under	under	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	hours	hour	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 ten minutes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:35-space-from-sputnik-to-the-moon:t8:o4:1
# text = About ten minutes
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	minutes	minute	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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