Test 3 · ★ · Stars: what they are
A star glows blue-white and another glows red. Which is hotter?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: star, another · What happens: glow, be
This is test 3 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: A star glows blue-white and another glows red.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 star | det |
| 2 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 glows | nsubj |
| 3 | glows | glow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 white | amod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 blue | punct |
| 6 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 glows | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 glows | cc |
| 8 | another | another | PRON | PronType=Ind | 9 glows | nsubj |
| 9 | glows | glow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 glows | conj |
| 10 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 glows | xcomp |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 glows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glow | present | a star | white property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | glow | present | another | red property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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.
Sentence 2: Which is hotter?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 hotter | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 hotter | cop |
| 3 | hotter | hot | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 hotter | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | hot property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The blue-white one
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 one | det |
| 2 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 white | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 blue | punct |
| 4 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 one | amod |
| 5 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The red one
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 one | det |
| 2 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 one | amod |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
You cannot tell anything from colour
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 tell | advmod |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 tell | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 colour | case |
| 7 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tell | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not tell speech: assert | can | You | anything | colour | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anything=Recipient |
Option 4
They are both the same
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 | 5 same | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 same | cop |
| 3 | both | both | ADV | _ | 5 same | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 same | det |
| 5 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | They | both, same property | tree rules |
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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