--- title: Identify the person who demonstrated in 1923-1924 that the Andromeda… — Galaxies and the Big Bang · tree and pragmatics description: Identify the person who demonstrated in 1923-1924 that the Andromeda nebula was a separate galaxy. Exam question 3 of lesson 24 «Galaxies and the Big Bang» 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 righ --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/24-galaxies-and-the-big-bang/e3/) [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/) / [Galaxies and the Big Bang](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/24-galaxies-and-the-big-bang/) / e3 # Exam question 3 · Galaxies and the Big Bang Identify the person who demonstrated in 1923-1924 that the Andromeda nebula was a separate galaxy. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, person, Andromeda nebula · **What happens:** identify, demonstrate, be · **To what, where:** person, 1923-1924, separate galaxy This is exam question 3 of lesson 24 «Galaxies and the Big Bang» 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/24-galaxies-and-the-big-bang/#e3). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:space:24-galaxies-and-the-big-bang:e3:1 # text = Identify the person who demonstrated in 1923-1924 that the Andromeda nebula was a separate galaxy. 1 Identify identify VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 5 demonstrated demonstrate VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 1923-1924 1923-1924 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 obl _ _ 8 that that SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 Andromeda Andromeda PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 nebula nebula NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 12 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 separate separate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 galaxy galaxy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the person | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent person=Theme | | 2 | **demonstrate** | past | the person | | | 1923-1924 | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | past | the Andromeda nebula | a separate galaxy | | | | | tree rules | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1} Edwin Hubble ```conllu # sent_id = question:space:24-galaxies-and-the-big-bang:e3:o1:1 # text = Edwin Hubble 1 Edwin Edwin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 Hubble Hubble PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Arno Penzias ```conllu # sent_id = question:space:24-galaxies-and-the-big-bang:e3:o2:1 # text = Arno Penzias 1 Arno Arno PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 Penzias Penzias PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Galileo Galilei ```conllu # sent_id = question:space:24-galaxies-and-the-big-bang:e3:o3:1 # text = Galileo Galilei 1 Galileo Galileo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 Galilei Galilei PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Isaac Newton ```conllu # sent_id = question:space:24-galaxies-and-the-big-bang:e3:o4:1 # text = Isaac Newton 1 Isaac Isaac PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 Newton Newton PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ ``` 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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