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title: If you lined up Earths from here to the Moon, about how many would y… — The Moon · tree and pragmatics
description: If you lined up Earths from here to the Moon, about how many would you need? Test 11 of lesson 6 «The Moon» 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 11 · The Moon

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If you lined up Earths from here to the Moon, about how many would you need?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** line up, need · **To what, where:** Earths, many

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This is test 11 of lesson 6 «The Moon» 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/6-the-moon/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:6-the-moon:t11:1
# text = If you lined up Earths from here to the Moon, about how many would you need?
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lined	line	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	Earths	earth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	obl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
13	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
14	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	obj	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **line up** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | you | Earths |  |  |  | to the Moon | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent earth=Destination |
| 2 | **need** | would | you | many |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot many=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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About 3

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:6-the-moon:t11:o1:1
# text = About 3
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	3	3	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 {#o2}

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About 1,000

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:6-the-moon:t11:o2:1
# text = About 1,000
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	1,000	1000	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 300

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:6-the-moon:t11:o3:1
# text = About 300
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	300	300	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 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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About 30

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:6-the-moon:t11:o4:1
# text = About 30
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	30	30	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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