--- title: Identify the person who became the first human being to travel into… — The history of space exploration · tree and pragmatics description: Identify the person who became the first human being to travel into space, on 12 April 1961. Exam question 1 of lesson 29 «The history of space exploration» 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 wro --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/29-the-history-of-space-exploration/e1/) [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 history of space exploration](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/29-the-history-of-space-exploration/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · The history of space exploration Identify the person who became the first human being to travel into space, on 12 April 1961. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, person · **What happens:** identify, become, travel · **To what, where:** person, space This is exam question 1 of lesson 29 «The history of space exploration» 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/29-the-history-of-space-exploration/#e1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:space:29-the-history-of-space-exploration:e1:1 # text = Identify the person who became the first human being to travel into space, on 12 April 1961. 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 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 8 amod _ _ 8 human human ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ _ 9 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 travel travel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 12 into into ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 space space NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 on on ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 obl _ _ 17 April April PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod:unmarked _ _ 18 1961 1961 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 19 . . 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 | **become** | past | the person | | | | | human *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **travel** | to-infinitive | the person *not said here* | | | space | | on 12 April | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into space=Destination | 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} Michael Collins ```conllu # sent_id = question:space:29-the-history-of-space-exploration:e1:o1:1 # text = Michael Collins 1 Michael Michael PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 Collins Collins PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Yuri Gagarin ```conllu # sent_id = question:space:29-the-history-of-space-exploration:e1:o2:1 # text = Yuri Gagarin 1 Yuri Yuri PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 Gagarin Gagarin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Neil Armstrong ```conllu # sent_id = question:space:29-the-history-of-space-exploration:e1:o3:1 # text = Neil Armstrong 1 Neil Neil PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 Armstrong Armstrong PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Valentina Tereshkova ```conllu # sent_id = question:space:29-the-history-of-space-exploration:e1:o4:1 # text = Valentina Tereshkova 1 Valentina Valentina PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 Tereshkova Tereshkova 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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