Exam question 1 · How stars live

Identify the principal factor which determines the lifespan of a star.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, principal factor · What happens: identify, determine · To what, where: principal factor, lifespan

This is exam question 1 of lesson 18 «How stars live» of the space 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 factor	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 factor	amod
4	factor	factor	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 determines	nsubj
6	determines	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 factor	acl:relcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lifespan	det
8	lifespan	lifespan	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 determines	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 star	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 star	det
11	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lifespan	nmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal factor					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent factor=Theme
2	determine	present	the principal factor	the lifespan of a star					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lifespan=Topic

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

Its colour alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 colour	nmod:poss
2	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	alone	alone	ADV	_	2 colour	advmod

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

Option 2

The number of its planets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 number	det
2	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 planets	case
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 planets	nmod:poss
5	planets	planet	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 number	nmod

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

Option 3

Its distance from the Earth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 distance	nmod:poss
2	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 Earth	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Earth	det
5	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 distance	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Its mass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mass	nmod:poss
2	mass	mass	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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