Exam question 4 · How stars live

Ascertain the locations within which the formation of stars takes place.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, formation · What happens: ascertain, take · To what, where: locations, place

This is exam question 4 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 locations	det
3	locations	location	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Ascertain	obj
4	within	within	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 takes	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 formation	det
7	formation	formation	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 takes	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 stars	case
9	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 formation	nmod
10	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Ascertain	parataxis
11	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 takes	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the locations					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent location=Topic
2	take	present	the formation of stars	place					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=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.

The options

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

Cold clouds of gas and dust designated nebulae

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 clouds	amod
2	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 nebulae	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 gas	case
4	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 clouds	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 dust	cc
6	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gas	conj
7	designated	designate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 nebulae	amod
8	nebulae	nebula	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	designate	participle							vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	cloud			gas and dust					nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

The interiors of planets, beneath their rocky surfaces

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 interiors	det
2	interiors	interior	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 planets	case
4	planets	planet	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 interiors	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 surfaces	punct
6	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	9 surfaces	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 surfaces	nmod:poss
8	rocky	rocky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 surfaces	amod
9	surfaces	surface	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 interiors	conj

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

Option 3

The surfaces of comets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 surfaces	det
2	surfaces	surface	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 comets	case
4	comets	comet	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 surfaces	nmod

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

Option 4

The cores of existing stars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cores	det
2	cores	core	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 stars	case
4	existing	exist	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 stars	amod
5	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cores	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exist	gerund							vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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