Test 10 · ★ · Stars: what they are

If the Sun were as far away as the next nearest star, what would it look like?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Sun · What happens: be, look · To what, where: next nearest star

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 17 «Stars: what they are» 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	7 away	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Sun	det
3	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 away	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 away	cop
5	as	as	ADV	_	7 away	advmod
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 away	advmod
7	away	away	ADV	_	root	root
8	as	as	ADP	_	12 star	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 star	det
10	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 star	amod
11	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 star	amod
12	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 away	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 look	punct
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 look	obl
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 look	aux
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 look	nsubj
17	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 star	parataxis
18	like	like	ADP	_	17 look	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 away	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Sun					as the next nearest star; away, far property	tree rules
2	look	would	Sun	the next nearest star					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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

Still a huge bright disc, only a bit smaller

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Still	still	ADV	_	5 disc	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 disc	det
3	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 disc	amod
4	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 disc	amod
5	disc	disc	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bit	punct
7	only	only	ADV	_	9 bit	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bit	det
9	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 disc	appos
10	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 bit	amod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Just one more star in the night sky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	4 star	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 star	nummod
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 star	amod
4	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 sky	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sky	det
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sky	compound
8	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 star	nmod

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

Option 3

A dark circle with no light

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 circle	det
2	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 circle	amod
3	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 light	case
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 light	det
6	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 circle	nmod

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

Option 4

A planet with rings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 planet	det
2	planet	planet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 rings	case
4	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 planet	nmod

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. Elamur Cosmic License.

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