--- title: Count them: the space station goes round the Earth about every 90 mi… — Satellites and GPS · tree and pragmatics description: Count them: the space station goes round the Earth about every 90 minutes. About how many times does it go round in 3 hours? Test 6 · ★★ of lesson 38 «Satellites and GPS» of the technology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/technology/38-satellites-and-gps/t6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Technology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/technology/) / [Satellites and GPS](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/technology/38-satellites-and-gps/) / t6 # Test 6 · ★★ · Satellites and GPS Count them: the space station goes round the Earth about every 90 minutes. About how many times does it go round in 3 hours? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, space station, station · **What happens:** count, go, go round · **To what, where:** them, Earth This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 38 «Satellites and GPS» of the technology 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/technology/38-satellites-and-gps/#t6). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Count them: the space station goes round the Earth about every 90 minutes. ```conllu # sent_id = question:technology:38-satellites-and-gps:t6:1 # text = Count them: the space station goes round the Earth about every 90 minutes. 1 Count count VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 space space NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 station station NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 8 round round ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 about about ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 12 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 14 det _ _ 13 90 90 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 15 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **count** | imperative | you *not said here* | them *= they* | | | | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 2 | **go** | present | the space station | | | the Earth | minute | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme round earth=Initial\_Location | 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 many times does it go round in 3 hours? ```conllu # sent_id = question:technology:38-satellites-and-gps:t6:2 # text = About how many times does it go round in 3 hours? 1 About about ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 3 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 5 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 round round ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go round** | present · do-support | station | | | | hour; time | round *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} 90 ```conllu # sent_id = question:technology:38-satellites-and-gps:t6:o1:1 # text = 90 1 90 90 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} 1 ```conllu # sent_id = question:technology:38-satellites-and-gps:t6:o2:1 # text = 1 1 1 1 NUM LS NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} 2 ```conllu # sent_id = question:technology:38-satellites-and-gps:t6:o3:1 # text = 2 1 2 2 NUM LS NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} 3 ```conllu # sent_id = question:technology:38-satellites-and-gps:t6:o4:1 # text = 3 1 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 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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