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title: Which planet is known to have moving plates of crust? — The Earth as a planet · tree and pragmatics
description: Which planet is known to have moving plates of crust? Test 8 of lesson 5 «The Earth as a planet» 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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# Test 8 · The Earth as a planet

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Which planet is known to have moving plates of crust?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** know, have, move · **To what, where:** planet, moving plates

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This is test 8 of lesson 5 «The Earth as a planet» 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/5-the-earth-as-a-planet/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:5-the-earth-as-a-planet:t8:1
# text = Which planet is known to have moving plates of crust?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	planet	planet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	moving	move	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	amod	_	_
8	plates	plate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	crust	crust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present · passive |  | which planet |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | to-infinitive |  | moving plates of crust |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plate=Patient |
| 3 | **move** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

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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 {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Only Mars

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:5-the-earth-as-a-planet:t8:o1:1
# text = Only Mars
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	Mars	Mars	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Every rocky planet, including Venus and Mars

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:5-the-earth-as-a-planet:t8:o2:1
# text = Every rocky planet, including Venus and Mars
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
2	rocky	rocky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	planet	planet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	including	including	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Venus	Venus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	Mars	Mars	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Only the giant planets

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:5-the-earth-as-a-planet:t8:o3:1
# text = Only the giant planets
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	planets	planet	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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Only the Earth, as far as we know

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:5-the-earth-as-a-planet:t8:o4:1
# text = Only the Earth, as far as we know
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	as	as	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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