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title: Mercury — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · Space
description: The 15 test and exam questions of lesson 3 «Mercury» of the space course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mercury

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The 15 questions of lesson 3 «Mercury» of the space course of Mova's primary school with their options, 79 sentences, every one parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/space/3-mercury/).

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- [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/3-mercury/t1/) — quiz q: closest planet to the Sun = hottest planet, yeah? — right ✓
- [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/3-mercury/t2/) — Why does Mercury get so cold at night when it is so close to the Sun? — right ✓
- [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/3-mercury/t3/) — How can a day on Mercury last longer than its year? — wrong ✗
- [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/3-mercury/t4/) — How can ice survive on the planet closest to the Sun? — right ✓
- [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/3-mercury/t5/) — Imagine a peach where the stone is most of the fruit. Which planet is this like? — wrong ✗
- [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/3-mercury/t6/) — A raisin is a shrunken grape with wrinkled skin. What on Mercury is like that? — wrong ✗
- [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/3-mercury/t7/) — Why does Mercury keep its craters for billions of years? — right ✓
- [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/3-mercury/t8/) — Why is it surprisingly hard to put a spacecraft into orbit around Mercury? — right ✓
- [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/3-mercury/t9/) — Tom says he saw Mercury high overhead at midnight. What is wrong? — right ✓
- [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/3-mercury/t10/) — In a game, Mercury is the biggest of the rocky planets. What should it be? — right ✓
- [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/3-mercury/t11/) — Which is true: Mercury is heavier than Titan, or wider than Titan? — right ✓
- [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/3-mercury/e1/) — Identify the planet which completes its orbit of the Sun in the shortest period. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/3-mercury/e2/) — State the principal reason for which the night-side temperature of Mercury falls to approximately minus one hundred and eighty degrees Celsius. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/3-mercury/e3/) — Which of the following statements is consistent with the established facts concerning the interior of Mercury? — right ✓ · exam
- [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/3-mercury/e4/) — Ascertain the circumstances under which Mercury may be observed from the Earth. — wrong ✗ · exam

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