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title: Determine the number of Mercurian years which elapse between success… — Olympiad: planet puzzles ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Determine the number of Mercurian years which elapse between successive sunrises on Mercury. Exam question 1 of lesson 31 «Olympiad: planet puzzles ★★★» 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 · Olympiad: planet puzzles ★★★

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Determine the number of Mercurian years which elapse between successive sunrises on Mercury.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, Mercurian years · **What happens:** determine, elapse · **To what, where:** number

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 31 «Olympiad: planet puzzles ★★★» 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/31-olympiad-planet-puzzles/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:31-olympiad-planet-puzzles:e1:1
# text = Determine the number of Mercurian years which elapse between successive sunrises on Mercury.
1	Determine	determine	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	Mercurian	Mercurian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	elapse	elapse	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	between	between	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	successive	successive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	sunrises	sunrise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Mercury	Mercury	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **determine** | imperative | you *not said here* | the number of Mercurian years |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic |
| 2 | **elapse** | present | Mercurian years |  |  |  | sunrise |  | 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 {#o1}

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One hundred and seventy-six

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:31-olympiad-planet-puzzles:e1:o1:1
# text = One hundred and seventy-six
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	seventy	seventy	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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One

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:31-olympiad-planet-puzzles:e1:o2:1
# text = One
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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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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Two

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:31-olympiad-planet-puzzles:e1:o3:1
# text = Two
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Eighty-eight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:31-olympiad-planet-puzzles:e1:o4:1
# text = Eighty-eight
1	Eighty	eighty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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