Test 4 · The Sun, our star

Why do sunspots look black if they are still thousands of degrees hot?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: sunspots · What happens: look, be

This is test 4 of lesson 1 «The Sun, our star» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 look	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 look	aux
3	sunspots	sunspot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 look	nsubj
4	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 look	xcomp
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 hot	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hot	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 hot	cop
9	still	still	ADV	_	13 hot	advmod
10	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hot	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 degrees	case
12	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 thousands	nmod
13	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 look	advcl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 look	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present · do-support	sunspots					black property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	is a condition, not said to happen	present	sunspots = sunspot				still	hot property	tree rules

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The rest of the Sun around them is even brighter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rest	det
2	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 brighter	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Sun	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Sun	det
5	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 rest	nmod
6	around	around	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rest	nmod
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 brighter	cop
9	even	even	ADV	_	10 brighter	advmod
10	brighter	bright	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the rest of the Sun around them					bright property	tree rules

Option 2

They are covered in thick black smoke and ash from fires

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 covered	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 covered	aux:pass
3	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 smoke	case
5	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 smoke	amod
6	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 smoke	amod
7	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 covered	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 ash	cc
9	ash	ash	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 smoke	conj
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 fires	case
11	fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 covered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	present · passive		They				from fires; in thick black smoke and ash	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in smoke=Theme

Option 3

They are cold, dead parts of the Sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cold	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cold	cop
3	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 parts	punct
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 parts	amod
6	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cold	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 Sun	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Sun	det
9	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 parts	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					dead parts of the Sun obl; cold property	tree rules

Option 4

They are holes showing empty space behind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 holes	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 holes	cop
3	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	showing	show	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 holes	acl
5	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 space	amod
6	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 showing	obj
7	behind	behind	ADV	_	4 showing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	They	holes					tree rules
2	show	gerund	holes not said here	empty space				behind property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent space=Recipient

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