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title: Who were the first people to land on the Moon? — The history of space exploration · tree and pragmatics
description: Who were the first people to land on the Moon? Test 6 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 right.
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# Test 6 · The history of space exploration

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Who were the first people to land on the Moon?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be, land · **To what, where:** first people, Moon

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This is test 6 of lesson 29 «The history of space exploration» 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/29-the-history-of-space-exploration/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:29-the-history-of-space-exploration:t6:1
# text = Who were the first people to land on the Moon?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	land	land	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the first people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **land** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the Moon |  |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on moon=Destination |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:29-the-history-of-space-exploration:t6:o1:1
# text = Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin
1	Neil	Neil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Armstrong	Armstrong	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	Buzz	Buzz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Aldrin	Aldrin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:29-the-history-of-space-exploration:t6:o2:1
# text = Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins
1	Neil	Neil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Armstrong	Armstrong	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	Michael	Michael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	Collins	Collins	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Yuri Gagarin and Valentina Tereshkova

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:29-the-history-of-space-exploration:t6:o3:1
# text = Yuri Gagarin and Valentina Tereshkova
1	Yuri	Yuri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Gagarin	Gagarin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	Valentina	Valentina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	Tereshkova	Tereshkova	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Helen Sharman and Tim Peake

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:29-the-history-of-space-exploration:t6:o4:1
# text = Helen Sharman and Tim Peake
1	Helen	Helen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Sharman	Sharman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	Tim	Tim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	Peake	Peake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
```

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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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