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title: How far is 1 AU in kilometres? — Distances and light years · tree and pragmatics
description: How far is 1 AU in kilometres? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 22 «Distances and light years» 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 11 · ★ · Distances and light years

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How far is 1 AU in kilometres?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** 1 AU, kilometres

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 22 «Distances and light years» 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/22-distances-and-light-years/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:22-distances-and-light-years:t11:1
# text = How far is 1 AU in kilometres?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	AU	au	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | 1 AU |  | kilometres |  | far *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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About 384,000

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:22-distances-and-light-years:t11:o1:1
# text = About 384,000
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	384,000	384,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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About 26 billion

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:22-distances-and-light-years:t11:o2:1
# text = About 26 billion
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	26	26	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	compound	_	_
3	billion	billion	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 {#o3}

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About 9.5 trillion

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:22-distances-and-light-years:t11:o3:1
# text = About 9.5 trillion
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	9.5	9.5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	compound	_	_
3	trillion	trillion	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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About 150 million

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:22-distances-and-light-years:t11:o4:1
# text = About 150 million
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	150	150	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	compound	_	_
3	million	million	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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