--- title: ★★★ Mum: "The Moon's moving off by 3.8 centimetres a year, nothing r… — Olympiad: stars, light and space histo… · tree and pragmatics description: ★★★ Mum: "The Moon's moving off by 3.8 centimetres a year, nothing really." About how far in 1,000 years? 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About how far in 1,000 years? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mum · **What happens:** move off This is test 7 · ★★★ of lesson 32 «Olympiad: stars, light and space history ★★★» 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/32-olympiad-stars-light-and-space-history/#t7). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* ★★★ Mum: "The Moon's moving off by 3.8 centimetres a year, nothing really." ```conllu # sent_id = question:space:32-olympiad-stars-light-and-space-history:t7:1 # text = ★★★ Mum: "The Moon's moving off by 3.8 centimetres a year, nothing really." 1 ★ ★ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ★ ★ X FW Foreign=Yes 1 dep _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ★ ★ ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 Moon Moon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 9 's 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 moving move VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 acl:relcl _ _ 11 off off ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 12 by by ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 3.8 3.8 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 centimetres centimetre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 10 parataxis _ _ 19 really really ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **move off** *in a quote* | gerund | Mum *not said here* | | | | | by 3.8 centimetres a year | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme by centimetre=Trajectory | 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. *Sentence 2:* About how far in 1,000 years? ```conllu # sent_id = question:space:32-olympiad-stars-light-and-space-history:t7:2 # text = About how far in 1,000 years? 1 About about SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 3 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 1,000 1000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} About 3.8 metres ```conllu # sent_id = question:space:32-olympiad-stars-light-and-space-history:t7:o1:1 # text = About 3.8 metres 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 3.8 3.8 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} About 38 metres ```conllu # sent_id = question:space:32-olympiad-stars-light-and-space-history:t7:o2:1 # text = About 38 metres 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 38 38 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} About 3.8 kilometres ```conllu # sent_id = question:space:32-olympiad-stars-light-and-space-history:t7:o3:1 # text = About 3.8 kilometres 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 3.8 3.8 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} About 380 metres ```conllu # sent_id = question:space:32-olympiad-stars-light-and-space-history:t7:o4:1 # text = About 380 metres 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 380 380 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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