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title: Ascertain the period of rotation of Jupiter about its axis. — Jupiter · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the period of rotation of Jupiter about its axis. Exam question 3 of lesson 10 «Jupiter» of the space 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 3 · Jupiter

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Ascertain the period of rotation of Jupiter about its axis.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, Jupiter · **What happens:** ascertain, rotate · **To what, where:** period

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 10 «Jupiter» of the space 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/space/10-jupiter/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:10-jupiter:e3:1
# text = Ascertain the period of rotation of Jupiter about its axis.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	rotation	rotation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	about	about	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	axis	axis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	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 period of rotation of Jupiter |  |  |  | about rotation's axis | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent period=Topic |
| 2 | **rotate** |  | Jupiter |  |  |  |  |  | nom rotation «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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Approximately twelve years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:10-jupiter:e3:o1:1
# text = Approximately twelve years
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Approximately two hundred and forty-three days

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:10-jupiter:e3:o2:1
# text = Approximately two hundred and forty-three days
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	compound	_	_
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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Somewhat less than ten hours

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:10-jupiter:e3:o3:1
# text = Somewhat less than ten hours
1	Somewhat	somewhat	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	4	advmod	_	_
3	than	than	ADP	IN	_	2	fixed	_	_
4	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	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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Approximately twenty-four hours

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:10-jupiter:e3:o4:1
# text = Approximately twenty-four hours
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	hours	hour	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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