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title: A child born when Saturn was at one point of its orbit is how old wh… — Saturn and its rings · tree and pragmatics
description: A child born when Saturn was at one point of its orbit is how old when Saturn first gets back there? Test 7 · ★ 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 right.
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# Test 7 · ★ · Saturn and its rings

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A child born when Saturn was at one point of its orbit is how old when Saturn first gets back there?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Saturn, child · **What happens:** bear, be, get back · **To what, where:** child, one point

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This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:12-saturn-and-its-rings:t7:1
# text = A child born when Saturn was at one point of its orbit is how old when Saturn first gets back there?
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
3	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
5	Saturn	Saturn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	advcl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	orbit	orbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
15	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
16	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
17	Saturn	Saturn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	19	advmod	_	_
19	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
20	back	back	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | participle |  | a child *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | past | Saturn |  |  | one point |  | of child's orbit | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | a child |  |  |  |  | old *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **get back** | present | Saturn |  |  | there |  | first *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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About 29 or 30

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:12-saturn-and-its-rings:t7:o1:1
# text = About 29 or 30
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	29	29	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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About 84, like Uranus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:12-saturn-and-its-rings:t7:o2:1
# text = About 84, like Uranus
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	84	84	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Uranus	Uranus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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About 12

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:12-saturn-and-its-rings:t7:o3:1
# text = About 12
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	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 1

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:12-saturn-and-its-rings:t7:o4:1
# text = About 1
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	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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