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title: Neptune was discovered in 1846 and completes an orbit in about 165 y… — Olympiad: planet puzzles ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Exam question 3 of lesson 31 «Olympiad: planet puzzles ★★★» of the space course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the qu
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# Exam question 3 · Olympiad: planet puzzles ★★★

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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.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** State · **What happens:** discover, complete · **To what, where:** Neptune, 1846, orbit, second orbit, State

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This is exam question 3 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/#e3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Neptune was discovered in 1846 and completes an orbit in about 165 years.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:31-olympiad-planet-puzzles:e3:1
# text = Neptune was discovered in 1846 and completes an orbit in about 165 years.
1	Neptune	Neptune	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	discovered	discover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	1846	1846	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	completes	complete	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	orbit	orbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	about	about	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	165	165	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **discover** | past · passive |  | Neptune |  | 1846 |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **complete** | present |  | a orbit |  |  | year |  | 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.

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*Sentence 2:* State the year in which it completes its second orbit since discovery.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:31-olympiad-planet-puzzles:e3:2
# text = State the year in which it completes its second orbit since discovery.
1	State	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	obl	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	completes	complete	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	amod	_	_
10	orbit	orbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	since	since	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	discovery	discovery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **complete** | present | State | State's second orbit |  | State  the year | since discovery |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent orbit=Eventuality |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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About 2046

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:31-olympiad-planet-puzzles:e3:o1:1
# text = About 2046
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	2046	2046	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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About 2176

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:31-olympiad-planet-puzzles:e3:o2:1
# text = About 2176
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	2176	2176	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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About 2011

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:31-olympiad-planet-puzzles:e3:o3:1
# text = About 2011
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	2011	2011	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|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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About 2341

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:31-olympiad-planet-puzzles:e3:o4:1
# text = About 2341
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	2341	2341	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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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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