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title: Why could you not fly a spacecraft down onto Saturn and park it? — Saturn and its rings · tree and pragmatics
description: Why could you not fly a spacecraft down onto Saturn and park it? Test 5 · ★ 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 wrong.
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# Test 5 · ★ · Saturn and its rings

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Why could you not fly a spacecraft down onto Saturn and park it?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** not fly down, park · **To what, where:** spacecraft, Saturn

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This is test 5 · ★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:12-saturn-and-its-rings:t5:1
# text = Why could you not fly a spacecraft down onto Saturn and park it?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	spacecraft	spacecraft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	down	down	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
9	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Saturn	Saturn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	park	park	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **fly down** | could | you | a spacecraft |  | Saturn |  | down *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme spacecraft=Trajectory |
| 2 | **park** | infinitive | you *not said here* | spacecraft |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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Saturn's surface is too slippery

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:12-saturn-and-its-rings:t5:o1:1
# text = Saturn's surface is too slippery
1	Saturn	Saturn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	slippery	slippery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Saturn's surface |  |  |  |  | slippery *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Saturn spins too slowly to land on

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:12-saturn-and-its-rings:t5:o2:1
# text = Saturn spins too slowly to land on
1	Saturn	Saturn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	spins	spin	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	land	land	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spin** | present | Saturn |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **land on** | to-infinitive | Saturn *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Saturn's rings stop anything getting near

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:12-saturn-and-its-rings:t5:o3:1
# text = Saturn's rings stop anything getting near
1	Saturn	Saturn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	rings	ring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stop	stop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	obj	_	_
6	getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	near	near	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | present | Saturn's rings | anything |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality anything=Eventuality |
| 2 | **get** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | near *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Saturn is gas, with no solid surface

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:12-saturn-and-its-rings:t5:o4:1
# text = Saturn is gas, with no solid surface
1	Saturn	Saturn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
7	solid	solid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | Saturn gas |  |  |  | with no solid surface | tree rules |

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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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