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title: news says "NASA FOUND LIFE ON MARS!!!" in 2025. What did scientists… — Mars · tree and pragmatics
description: news says "NASA FOUND LIFE ON MARS!!!" in 2025. What did scientists actually report? Test 6 · ★ 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 right.
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# Test 6 · ★ · Mars

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news says "NASA FOUND LIFE ON MARS!!!" in 2025. What did scientists actually report?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** news, NASA, scientists · **What happens:** say, find, report · **To what, where:** LIFE, MARS · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* news says "NASA FOUND LIFE ON MARS!!!" in 2025.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:8-mars:t6:1
# text = news says "NASA FOUND LIFE ON MARS!!!" in 2025.
1	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	NASA	NASA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	FOUND	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	LIFE	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	ON	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	MARS	MARS	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	!!!	!!!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	2025	2025	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | news |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **find** *in a quote* | past | NASA | LIFE |  | MARS |  | in 2025 | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Topic |

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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:* What did scientists actually report?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:8-mars:t6:2
# text = What did scientists actually report?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	report	report	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **report** | past · do-support | scientists |  |  |  |  | actually *property* | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Green plants in a crater

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:8-mars:t6:o1:1
# text = Green plants in a crater
1	Green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	crater	crater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Living animals under the ice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:8-mars:t6:o2:1
# text = Living animals under the ice
1	Living	live	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	under	under	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | gerund |  | animals |  | the ice |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme animal=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Bones of old Martians

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:8-mars:t6:o3:1
# text = Bones of old Martians
1	Bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Martians	Martian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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A rock with chemical patterns that could be a possible sign of ancient microbes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:8-mars:t6:o4:1
# text = A rock with chemical patterns that could be a possible sign of ancient microbes
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	chemical	chemical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	patterns	pattern	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
7	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	microbes	microbe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | could | a rock with chemical patterns | a possible sign |  |  |  | of ancient microbes | tree rules |

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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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