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title: If you met Tim Peake, what could you ask him about? — The history of space exploration · tree and pragmatics
description: If you met Tim Peake, what could you ask him about? Test 8 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 8 · The history of space exploration

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If you met Tim Peake, what could you ask him about?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** meet, ask · **To what, where:** Tim

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This is test 8 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:29-the-history-of-space-exploration:t8:1
# text = If you met Tim Peake, what could you ask him about?
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
4	Tim	Tim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	Peake	Peake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	obj	_	_
8	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	about	about	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | you | Tim |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tim=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | could | you |  | Tim |  |  | about *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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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His stay on the space station in 2015-2016

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:29-the-history-of-space-exploration:t8:o1:1
# text = His stay on the space station in 2015-2016
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	stay	stay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	station	station	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	2015-2016	2015-2016	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** |  | His *= he* |  |  | the space station in 2015-2016 |  |  | nom stay «act intransitive»: poss=agent on=place |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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His flight past Neptune

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:29-the-history-of-space-exploration:t8:o2:1
# text = His flight past Neptune
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	past	past	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Neptune	Neptune	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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His time on Mars

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:29-the-history-of-space-exploration:t8:o3:1
# text = His time on Mars
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Mars	Mars	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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His walk on the Moon with Neil Armstrong in 1969

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:29-the-history-of-space-exploration:t8:o4:1
# text = His walk on the Moon with Neil Armstrong in 1969
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	walk	walk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	Neil	Neil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Armstrong	Armstrong	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	1969	1969	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** |  | His *= he* |  |  | the Moon |  | with Neil Armstrong | nom walk «act transitive»: poss=agent on=place with=obl |

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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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