Test 9 · The Sun, our star

Which is surprising about the Sun's temperatures?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: surprise

This is test 9 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 surprising	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 surprising	aux
3	surprising	surprise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	8 temperatures	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Sun	det
6	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 temperatures	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Sun	case
8	temperatures	temperature	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 surprising	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 surprising	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	surprise	present · progressive						about the Sun's temperatures	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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

Sunspots are the hottest part of the Sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sunspots	sunspot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 part	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 part	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 part	det
4	hottest	hot	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 part	amod
5	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 Sun	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Sun	det
8	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 part	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Sunspots	the hottest part				of the Sun	tree rules

Option 2

The Sun is coldest at its centre

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Sun	det
2	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 coldest	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 coldest	cop
4	coldest	cold	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 centre	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 centre	nmod:poss
7	centre	centre	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 coldest	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the Sun			Sun's centre		cold property	tree rules

Option 3

The surface is hotter than the core

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 surface	det
2	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hotter	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hotter	cop
4	hotter	hot	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	than	than	ADP	_	7 core	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 core	det
7	core	core	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hotter	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the surface					than the core; hot property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The thin outer corona is far hotter than the visible surface

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 corona	det
2	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 corona	amod
3	outer	outer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 corona	amod
4	corona	corona	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hotter	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 hotter	cop
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 hotter	advmod
7	hotter	hot	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
8	than	than	ADP	_	11 surface	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 surface	det
10	visible	visible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 surface	amod
11	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hotter	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the thin outer corona					than the visible surface; far, hot property	tree rules

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