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title: ★★★ Dad: "Mars days are only a smidge longer, nothing really." The r… — Olympiad: planet puzzles ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: ★★★ 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? Test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 31 «Olympiad: planet puzzles ★★★» of the space course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question 
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# Test 11 · ★★★ · Olympiad: planet puzzles ★★★

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★★★ 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?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mars days, rover, much more time · **What happens:** be, work · **To what, where:** smidge, 10 sols

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This is test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 31 «Olympiad: planet puzzles ★★★» of the space course of Mova's primary school. 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/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* ★★★ Dad: "Mars days are only a smidge longer, nothing really."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:31-olympiad-planet-puzzles:t11:1
# text = ★★★ Dad: "Mars days are only a smidge longer, nothing really."
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	★	★	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	★	★	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Mars	Mars	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	only	only	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	smidge	smidge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
13	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	12	appos	_	_
16	really	really	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Mars days | a smidge |  |  |  | long *property* | 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.

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*Sentence 2:* The rover has worked 10 sols.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:31-olympiad-planet-puzzles:t11:2
# text = The rover has worked 10 sols.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rover	rover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	worked	work	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	sols	sol	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | present · perfect | the rover | 10 sols |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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*Sentence 3:* How much more time is that than 10 Earth days?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:31-olympiad-planet-puzzles:t11:3
# text = How much more time is that than 10 Earth days?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
6	that	that	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
9	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:unmarked	_	_
10	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | much more time |  |  |  | that 10 days |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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10 hours

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:31-olympiad-planet-puzzles:t11:o1:1
# text = 10 hours
1	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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4 hours

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:31-olympiad-planet-puzzles:t11:o2:1
# text = 4 hours
1	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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40 minutes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:31-olympiad-planet-puzzles:t11:o3:1
# text = 40 minutes
1	40	40	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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6 hours 40 minutes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:31-olympiad-planet-puzzles:t11:o4:1
# text = 6 hours 40 minutes
1	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	40	40	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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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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