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title: A space probe lands on a planet with a red, dusty, rocky ground. Whe… — The solar system and the planets · tree and pragmatics
description: A space probe lands on a planet with a red, dusty, rocky ground. Where is it? Test 8 of lesson 4 «The solar system and the planets» of the world 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 8 · The solar system and the planets

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A space probe lands on a planet with a red, dusty, rocky ground. Where is it?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** space probe, probe · **What happens:** land, be · **To what, where:** planet

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This is test 8 of lesson 4 «The solar system and the planets» of the world 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/world/4-the-solar-system/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A space probe lands on a planet with a red, dusty, rocky ground.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:4-the-solar-system:t8:1
# text = A space probe lands on a planet with a red, dusty, rocky ground.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	probe	probe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lands	land	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	planet	planet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
10	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	dusty	dusty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	rocky	rocky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **land** | present | a space probe |  |  | a planet |  | with a red dusty rocky ground | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on planet=Destination |

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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:* Where is it?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:4-the-solar-system:t8:2
# text = Where is it?
1	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | probe |  |  |  |  | where *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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On Mars

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:4-the-solar-system:t8:o1:1
# text = On Mars
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
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 {#o2}

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On Neptune

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:4-the-solar-system:t8:o2:1
# text = On Neptune
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Neptune	Neptune	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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On Saturn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:4-the-solar-system:t8:o3:1
# text = On Saturn
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Saturn	Saturn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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On Jupiter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:4-the-solar-system:t8:o4:1
# text = On Jupiter
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	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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