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description: State the number of constellations officially recognised by astronomers since the period nineteen hundred and twenty-two to nineteen hundred and thirty. Exam question 1 of lesson 20 «Constellations and the night sky in winter and spring» of the space course of Mova's primary school, with the depende
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# Exam question 1 · Constellations and the night sky in winter and spring

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State the number of constellations officially recognised by astronomers since the period nineteen hundred and twenty-two to nineteen hundred and thirty.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** state, recognise · **To what, where:** number, constellations

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 20 «Constellations and the night sky in winter and spring» of the space course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/20-constellations-and-the-night-sky-in-winter-and-spring/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:20-constellations-and-the-night-sky-in-winter-and-spring:e1:1
# text = State the number of constellations officially recognised by astronomers since the period nineteen hundred and twenty-two to nineteen hundred and thirty.
1	State	state	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	constellations	constellation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	officially	officially	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	recognised	recognise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	astronomers	astronomer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl:agent	_	_
10	since	since	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
13	nineteen	nineteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	compound	_	_
14	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
16	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	conj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	nineteen	nineteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nmod	_	_
21	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **state** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | the number of constellations |  |  | since the period | nineteen hundred *obl* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent number=Topic |
| 2 | **recognise** | participle |  | constellations *not said here* |  |  |  | officially *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 {#o1}

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One hundred

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:20-constellations-and-the-night-sky-in-winter-and-spring:e1:o1:1
# text = One hundred
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Eight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:20-constellations-and-the-night-sky-in-winter-and-spring:e1:o2:1
# text = Eight
1	Eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	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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Eighty-eight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:20-constellations-and-the-night-sky-in-winter-and-spring:e1:o3:1
# text = Eighty-eight
1	Eighty	eighty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Twelve

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:20-constellations-and-the-night-sky-in-winter-and-spring:e1:o4:1
# text = Twelve
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|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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