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title: Identify the planet which completes its orbit of the Sun in the shor… — Mercury · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the planet which completes its orbit of the Sun in the shortest period. Exam question 1 of lesson 3 «Mercury» 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 wrong.
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# Exam question 1 · Mercury

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Identify the planet which completes its orbit of the Sun in the shortest period.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, planet · **What happens:** identify, complete · **To what, where:** planet, orbit, shortest period

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 3 «Mercury» 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/3-mercury/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:3-mercury:e1:1
# text = Identify the planet which completes its orbit of the Sun in the shortest period.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	planet	planet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	completes	complete	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	orbit	orbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	shortest	short	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	amod	_	_
14	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the planet |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent planet=Theme |
| 2 | **complete** | present | the planet | planet's orbit of the Sun |  | the shortest period |  |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent orbit=Eventuality |

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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 {#o1}

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Mars, in some six hundred and eighty-seven days

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:3-mercury:e1:o1:1
# text = Mars, in some six hundred and eighty-seven days
1	Mars	Mars	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	nsubj	_	_
5	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	compound	_	_
6	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	eighty	eighty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The Earth, in some three hundred and sixty-five days

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:3-mercury:e1:o2:1
# text = The Earth, in some three hundred and sixty-five days
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	nsubj	_	_
6	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	compound	_	_
7	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	sixty	sixty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Mercury, in some eighty-eight Earth days

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:3-mercury:e1:o3:1
# text = Mercury, in some eighty-eight Earth days
1	Mercury	Mercury	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
5	eighty	eighty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
8	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Venus, in some two hundred and twenty-five days

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:3-mercury:e1:o4:1
# text = Venus, in some two hundred and twenty-five days
1	Venus	Venus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	nsubj	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	compound	_	_
6	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	appos	_	_
```

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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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