--- title: How many times has the Sun gone round the galaxy since the dinosaurs… — The Milky Way · tree and pragmatics description: How many times has the Sun gone round the galaxy since the dinosaurs died out 66 million years ago? Test 4 of lesson 23 «The Milky Way» 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/23-the-milky-way/t4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Space](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/) / [The Milky Way](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/23-the-milky-way/) / t4 # Test 4 · The Milky Way How many times has the Sun gone round the galaxy since the dinosaurs died out 66 million years ago? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** many times, Sun, dinosaurs · **What happens:** have, go, die out · **To what, where:** galaxy This is test 4 of lesson 23 «The Milky Way» 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/23-the-milky-way/#t4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:space:23-the-milky-way:t4:1 # text = How many times has the Sun gone round the galaxy since the dinosaurs died out 66 million years ago? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 gone go VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 xcomp _ _ 8 round round ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 galaxy galaxy NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 since since SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 dinosaurs dinosaur NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 15 out out ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 66 66 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 17 compound _ _ 17 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl:unmarked _ _ 19 ago ago ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | many times | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **go** | participle | the Sun | | | the galaxy | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme round galaxy=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **die out** | past | the dinosaurs | | | | | ago *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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} About 66 times ```conllu # sent_id = question:space:23-the-milky-way:t4:o1:1 # text = About 66 times 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 66 66 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Less than once ```conllu # sent_id = question:space:23-the-milky-way:t4:o2:1 # text = Less than once 1 Less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 3 advmod _ _ 2 than than ADP IN _ 1 fixed _ _ 3 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} It does not move at all ```conllu # sent_id = question:space:23-the-milky-way:t4:o3:1 # text = It does not move at all 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 move move VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 4 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **move** | present · do-support | It | | | all | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at all=Trajectory | ### Option 4 {#o4} Thousands of times ```conllu # sent_id = question:space:23-the-milky-way:t4:o4:1 # text = Thousands of times 1 Thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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