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title: Saturn's winds reach about 1,800 kilometres per hour. Compared with… — Saturn and its rings · tree and pragmatics
description: Saturn's winds reach about 1,800 kilometres per hour. Compared with the strongest hurricanes on Earth, they are Test 11 · ★ 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 
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# Test 11 · ★ · Saturn and its rings

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Saturn's winds reach about 1,800 kilometres per hour. Compared with the strongest hurricanes on Earth, they are

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** winds, Saturn · **What happens:** reach, wind, compare, be · **To what, where:** 1,800 kilometres

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 12 «Saturn and its rings» of the space 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/space/12-saturn-and-its-rings/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Saturn's winds reach about 1,800 kilometres per hour.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:12-saturn-and-its-rings:t11:1
# text = Saturn's winds reach about 1,800 kilometres per hour.
1	Saturn	Saturn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	reach	reach	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	about	about	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	1,800	1,800	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	per	per	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | present | Saturn's winds | 1,800 kilometres |  |  | per hour |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent kilometre=Theme |
| 2 | **wind** |  | Saturn |  |  |  |  |  | nom wind «phenomenon transitive»: poss=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.

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*Sentence 2:* Compared with the strongest hurricanes on Earth, they are

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:12-saturn-and-its-rings:t11:2
# text = Compared with the strongest hurricanes on Earth, they are
1	Compared	compare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	strongest	strong	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	hurricanes	hurricane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **compare** | participle | winds *= wind* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the strongest hurricanes on Earth | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with hurricane=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **does** | present | winds *= wind* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Exactly twice as slow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:12-saturn-and-its-rings:t11:o1:1
# text = Exactly twice as slow
1	Exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	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 the same

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:12-saturn-and-its-rings:t11:o2:1
# text = About the same
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	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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Many times faster

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:12-saturn-and-its-rings:t11:o3:1
# text = Many times faster
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	faster	fast	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Much slower

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:12-saturn-and-its-rings:t11:o4:1
# text = Much slower
1	Much	much	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	slower	slow	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	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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