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title: How the Solar System was born — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · Space
description: The 15 test and exam questions of lesson 2 «How the Solar System was born» of the space course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# How the Solar System was born

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The 15 questions of lesson 2 «How the Solar System was born» of the space course of Mova's primary school with their options, 80 sentences, every one parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/space/2-how-the-solar-system-was-born/).

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- [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/2-how-the-solar-system-was-born/t1/) — my sister says the planets were all made at different times from bits of other stars. what's closer to the truth? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/2-how-the-solar-system-was-born/t2/) — Spin a ball of pizza dough and it spreads out flat. What in the Solar System's story is like that? — right ✓ · ★
- [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/2-how-the-solar-system-was-born/t3/) — A bicycle pump gets warm when you squeeze air into it. What does this help explain? — right ✓ · ★
- [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/2-how-the-solar-system-was-born/t4/) — If the young Earth had formed out beyond the frost line, what might have happened? — right ✓ · ★
- [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/2-how-the-solar-system-was-born/t5/) — Which evidence from meteorites helps date the Solar System? — right ✓ · ★
- [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/2-how-the-solar-system-was-born/t6/) — A game starts as an empty map of fog that slowly fills in with land. What part of the real story is like that? — right ✓ · ★
- [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/2-how-the-solar-system-was-born/t7/) — Rolling a snowball makes it pick up more snow the bigger it gets. Which stage is like that? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/2-how-the-solar-system-was-born/t8/) — Jake: "The Moon is just a captured asteroid, everyone knows that." What do most scientists actually think? — right ✓ · ★
- [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/2-how-the-solar-system-was-born/t9/) — Why do the small icy bodies far out in the Solar System matter to this story? — right ✓ · ★
- [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/2-how-the-solar-system-was-born/t10/) — What do discs around young stars tell us about our own Solar System? — right ✓ · ★
- [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/2-how-the-solar-system-was-born/t11/) — why are the planets all going the same way round, did someone line em up or what — right ✓ · ★
- [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/2-how-the-solar-system-was-born/e1/) — Identify the material from which the Solar System is understood to have formed. — right ✓ · exam
- [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/2-how-the-solar-system-was-born/e2/) — State the principal reason for which the outer planets attained a considerably greater size than the inner planets. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/2-how-the-solar-system-was-born/e3/) — Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the prevailing account of the origin of the Moon? — right ✓ · exam
- [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/2-how-the-solar-system-was-born/e4/) — Ascertain the means by which the age of the Solar System has been determined. — right ✓ · exam

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