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title: Which is true? — Saturn and its rings · tree and pragmatics
description: Which is true? Test 8 · ★ 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 8 · ★ · Saturn and its rings

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Which is true?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:12-saturn-and-its-rings:t8:1
# text = Which is true?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |

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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 rings are thicker than the Earth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:12-saturn-and-its-rings:t8:o1:1
# text = Saturn's rings are thicker than the Earth
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	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	thicker	thick	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Saturn's rings |  |  |  |  | than the Earth; thick *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Saturn is the biggest planet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:12-saturn-and-its-rings:t8:o2:1
# text = Saturn is the biggest planet
1	Saturn	Saturn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	planet	planet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Saturn | the biggest planet |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Only Saturn has rings

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:12-saturn-and-its-rings:t8:o3:1
# text = Only Saturn has rings
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Saturn	Saturn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	rings	ring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Saturn | rings |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Patient |

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

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Saturn has the biggest and brightest rings, but other giants have rings too

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:12-saturn-and-its-rings:t8:o4:1
# text = Saturn has the biggest and brightest rings, but other giants have rings too
1	Saturn	Saturn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	brightest	bright	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
7	rings	ring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	giants	giant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	rings	ring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	too	too	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Saturn | the biggest brightest rings |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | present | other giants | rings |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Patient |

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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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