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title: Ascertain the manner in which the Cassini mission was concluded in t… — Saturn and its rings · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the manner in which the Cassini mission was concluded in the year two thousand and seventeen. Exam question 4 of lesson 12 «Saturn and its rings» 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 wron
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# Exam question 4 · Saturn and its rings

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Ascertain the manner in which the Cassini mission was concluded in the year two thousand and seventeen.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** ascertain, conclude · **To what, where:** manner, Cassini mission

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 12 «Saturn and its rings» 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/12-saturn-and-its-rings/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:12-saturn-and-its-rings:e4:1
# text = Ascertain the manner in which the Cassini mission was concluded in the year two thousand and seventeen.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Cassini	Cassini	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	mission	mission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	concluded	conclude	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	compound	_	_
15	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	seventeen	seventeen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	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 manner |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manner=Topic |
| 2 | **conclude** | past · passive |  | the Cassini mission |  | the manner | year | two thousand *obl* | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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By departure from the Solar System altogether

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:12-saturn-and-its-rings:e4:o1:1
# text = By departure from the Solar System altogether
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	departure	departure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Solar	Solar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	System	System	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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By a deliberate descent into Saturn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:12-saturn-and-its-rings:e4:o2:1
# text = By a deliberate descent into Saturn
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	deliberate	deliberate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	descent	descent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Saturn	Saturn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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By a landing upon the rings

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:12-saturn-and-its-rings:e4:o3:1
# text = By a landing upon the rings
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	landing	landing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	rings	ring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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By a return to the Earth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:12-saturn-and-its-rings:e4:o4:1
# text = By a return to the Earth
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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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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