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title: ★★★ Ollie from Newcastle: "Howay, Titan's just a moon, so it's gotta… — Olympiad: planet puzzles ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: ★★★ Ollie from Newcastle: "Howay, Titan's just a moon, so it's gotta be smaller than every planet." Check the claim. Test 6 · ★★★ 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
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# Test 6 · ★★★ · Olympiad: planet puzzles ★★★

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★★★ Ollie from Newcastle: "Howay, Titan's just a moon, so it's gotta be smaller than every planet." Check the claim.

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** moon, you · **What happens:** be, check · **To what, where:** claim

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This is test 6 · ★★★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* ★★★ Ollie from Newcastle: "Howay, Titan's just a moon, so it's gotta be smaller than every planet."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:31-olympiad-planet-puzzles:t6:1
# text = ★★★ Ollie from Newcastle: "Howay, Titan's just a moon, so it's gotta be smaller than every planet."
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	★	★	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Ollie	Ollie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	list	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Newcastle	Newcastle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Howay	Howay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	Titan	Titan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	just	just	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	gotta	gotta	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
22	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
23	than	than	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
25	planet	planet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | moon |  |  |  |  | than every planet; small *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:* Check the claim.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:31-olympiad-planet-puzzles:t6:2
# text = Check the claim.
1	Check	check	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	claim	claim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **check** | imperative | you *not said here* | the claim |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claim=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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False: Titan is wider than Mercury

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:31-olympiad-planet-puzzles:t6:o1:1
# text = False: Titan is wider than Mercury
1	False	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Titan	Titan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	wider	wide	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Mercury	Mercury	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | False Titan |  |  |  |  | than Mercury; wide *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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False: Titan is wider than the Earth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:31-olympiad-planet-puzzles:t6:o2:1
# text = False: Titan is wider than the Earth
1	False	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Titan	Titan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	wider	wide	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | False Titan |  |  |  |  | than the Earth; wide *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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True: no moon is wider than a planet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:31-olympiad-planet-puzzles:t6:o3:1
# text = True: no moon is wider than a planet
1	True	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	wider	wide	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	parataxis	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	planet	planet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | no moon |  |  |  |  | than a planet; wide *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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True, but only for Saturn's moons

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:31-olympiad-planet-puzzles:t6:o4:1
# text = True, but only for Saturn's moons
1	True	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	Saturn	Saturn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	moons	moon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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