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title: If you lived on Mars, would your day feel much longer than on Earth? — Mars · tree and pragmatics
description: If you lived on Mars, would your day feel much longer than on Earth? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 8 «Mars» 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 5 · ★ · Mars

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If you lived on Mars, would your day feel much longer than on Earth?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, day · **What happens:** live, feel · **To what, where:** Mars

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 8 «Mars» 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/8-mars/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:8-mars:t5:1
# text = If you lived on Mars, would your day feel much longer than on Earth?
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Mars	Mars	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	much	much	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
13	than	than	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | you |  |  | Mars |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on mars=Location |
| 2 | **feel** | would | your day |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Only a little, a sol is about 40 minutes longer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:8-mars:t5:o1:1
# text = Only a little, a sol is about 40 minutes longer
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sol	sol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	40	40	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
11	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a little sol | 40 minutes |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Yes, a single day there lasts for a whole Earth month

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:8-mars:t5:o2:1
# text = Yes, a single day there lasts for a whole Earth month
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
7	lasts	last	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **last** | present | a single day |  |  |  | month |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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No, a day lasts only 10 hours

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:8-mars:t5:o3:1
# text = No, a day lasts only 10 hours
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	lasts	last	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **last** | present | a day |  |  |  | hour |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, the Sun never sets

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:8-mars:t5:o4:1
# text = Yes, the Sun never sets
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	sets	set	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **set** | present | the Sun |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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