Test 4 · ★★ · How stars live

Ollie says the Sun's nearly dead, we're doomed lol. is he right

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ollie, Sun · What happens: say, be, doom · To what, where: we · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 18 «How stars live» 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	Ollie	Ollie	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Sun	det
4	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 dead	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 dead	cop
6	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	7 dead	advmod
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 says	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 doomed	punct
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 doomed	nsubj:pass
10	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 doomed	aux:pass
11	doomed	doom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 dead	conj
12	lol	lol	INTJ	_	11 doomed	discourse
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 right	cop
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 right	nsubj
16	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 says	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Ollie			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	the Sun		dead, nearly property	tree rules
3	doom	present · passive		we		tree rules
4	is	present	Ollie		right property	tree rules

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

Yes, it will die next year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 die	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 die	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 die	aux
5	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 year	amod
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 die	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	future	it				year		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2

Yes, it is almost out of fuel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 fuel	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fuel	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 fuel	cop
5	almost	almost	ADV	_	8 fuel	advmod
6	out	out	ADP	_	8 fuel	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 fuel	case
8	fuel	fuel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it			fuel		almost property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, it is only about halfway through its life of about 10 billion years

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	10 life	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 life	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 life	cop
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 halfway	advmod
6	about	about	ADV	_	7 halfway	advmod
7	halfway	halfway	ADV	_	10 life	advmod
8	through	through	ADP	_	10 life	case
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 life	nmod:poss
10	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	of	of	ADP	_	15 years	case
12	about	about	ADV	_	14 billion	advmod
13	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 billion	compound
14	billion	billion	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 years	nummod
15	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 life	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it			its life	year	halfway property	tree rules

Option 4

No, the Sun will live for ever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 live	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Sun	det
4	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 live	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 live	aux
6	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 ever	case
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 live	obl

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

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