--- title: Ascertain the person who became the first in space, together with th… — Rockets, satellites and astronauts · tree and pragmatics description: Ascertain the person who became the first in space, together with the year thereof. Exam question 3 of lesson 71 «Rockets, satellites and astronauts» 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 wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/71-rockets-satellites-astronauts/e3/) [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/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/) / [Rockets, satellites and astronauts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/71-rockets-satellites-astronauts/) / e3 # Exam question 3 · Rockets, satellites and astronauts Ascertain the person who became the first in space, together with the year thereof. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, person · **What happens:** ascertain, become · **To what, where:** person, space This is exam question 3 of lesson 71 «Rockets, satellites and astronauts» of the world course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/71-rockets-satellites-astronauts/#e3). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:71-rockets-satellites-astronauts:e3:1 # text = Ascertain the person who became the first in space, together with the year thereof. 1 Ascertain ascertain VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 5 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 5 xcomp _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 space space NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 together together ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 15 thereof thereof ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the person | | | year | thereof, together *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Topic | | 2 | **become** | past | the person | | | | | in space *result*; first *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in space=Result | 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} Yuri Gagarin, in 1957 ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:71-rockets-satellites-astronauts:e3:o1:1 # text = Yuri Gagarin, in 1957 1 Yuri Yuri PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 Gagarin Gagarin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 1957 1957 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 1 nmod:unmarked _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Neil Armstrong, in 1969 ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:71-rockets-satellites-astronauts:e3:o2:1 # text = Neil Armstrong, in 1969 1 Neil Neil PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 Armstrong Armstrong PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 1969 1969 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 appos _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Yuri Gagarin, in 1961 ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:71-rockets-satellites-astronauts:e3:o3:1 # text = Yuri Gagarin, in 1961 1 Yuri Yuri PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 Gagarin Gagarin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 1961 1961 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 1 nmod:unmarked _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Buzz Aldrin, in 1957 ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:71-rockets-satellites-astronauts:e3:o4:1 # text = Buzz Aldrin, in 1957 1 Buzz buzz NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 Aldrin Aldrin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 1957 1957 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 appos _ _ ``` 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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