--- title: Olympiad: planet puzzles ★★★ — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · Space description: The 16 test and exam questions of lesson 31 «Olympiad: planet puzzles ★★★» 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/31-olympiad-planet-puzzles/) [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/) / Olympiad: planet puzzles ★★★ # Olympiad: planet puzzles ★★★ The 16 questions of lesson 31 «Olympiad: planet puzzles ★★★» of the space course of Mova's primary school with their options, 95 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/31-olympiad-planet-puzzles/). - [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/31-olympiad-planet-puzzles/t1/) — ★★★ Ruby from Cardiff, tamping: "Mercury's closest to the Sun so it's deffo the hottest, end of." What is the truth? — right ✓ · ★★★ - [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/31-olympiad-planet-puzzles/t2/) — ★★★ Jayden from Texas: "Y'all, Saturn takes 29 and a half years a lap. Grandpa's 59, so he's seen it go round like a million times." How many laps really? — wrong ✗ · ★★★ - [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/31-olympiad-planet-puzzles/t3/) — ★★★ Mia from Melbourne: "Venus takes longer to spin once than to go round the Sun, no cap." Is she right? — wrong ✗ · ★★★ - [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/31-olympiad-planet-puzzles/t4/) — ★★★ Grandpa: "Back in my day, a rock that glows across the sky and burns up was called a meteorite, sonny." Put him right. — right ✓ · ★★★ - [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/31-olympiad-planet-puzzles/t5/) — ★★★ A cartoon shows a comet zooming away from the Sun with its tail streaming behind it. What is wrong? — right ✓ · ★★★ - [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/31-olympiad-planet-puzzles/t6/) — ★★★ Ollie from Newcastle: "Howay, Titan's just a moon, so it's gotta be smaller than every planet." Check the claim. — wrong ✗ · ★★★ - [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/31-olympiad-planet-puzzles/t7/) — ★★★ Zoe says Uranus was found with a telescope, Neptune with maths and Pluto with photographs. Which years match, in that order? — wrong ✗ · ★★★ - [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/31-olympiad-planet-puzzles/t8/) — ★★★ Ava from Toronto: "Full Moon tonight, eh, so we might get a solar eclipse tomorrow." What is wrong? — wrong ✗ · ★★★ - [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/31-olympiad-planet-puzzles/t9/) — ★★★ Leo, rough: "Shut up, Neptune's furthest out so it's got the coldest air, everyone knows that." What did measuring show? — right ✓ · ★★★ - [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/31-olympiad-planet-puzzles/t10/) — ★★★ Kai from Liverpool weighs 42 kilograms: "On the Moon I'd be dead light, our kid, like 2 kilos." How light would he really feel? — wrong ✗ · ★★★ - [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/31-olympiad-planet-puzzles/t11/) — ★★★ Dad: "Mars days are only a smidge longer, nothing really." The rover has worked 10 sols. How much more time is that than 10 Earth days? — wrong ✗ · ★★★ - [t12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/31-olympiad-planet-puzzles/t12/) — ★★★ Nan, being dramatic: "Saturn would float in my bath, it's that light!" What is right? — right ✓ · ★★★ - [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/31-olympiad-planet-puzzles/e1/) — Determine the number of Mercurian years which elapse between successive sunrises on Mercury. — wrong ✗ · exam - [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/31-olympiad-planet-puzzles/e2/) — A comet recedes from the Sun. State the direction in which its tails point. — right ✓ · exam - [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/31-olympiad-planet-puzzles/e3/) — Neptune was discovered in 1846 and completes an orbit in about 165 years. State the year in which it completes its second orbit since discovery. — wrong ✗ · exam - [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/31-olympiad-planet-puzzles/e4/) — Identify the planet in the following list which is not of rocky composition. — wrong ✗ · exam - ← previous: [30. What comes next: the Moon, Mars and beyond](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/30-what-comes-next-the-moon-mars-and-beyond/) - next →: [32. Olympiad: stars, light and space history ★★★](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/32-olympiad-stars-light-and-space-history/) - ↑ back to [Space](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/)