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Test 5 · ★★ · How stars live

A teacher says "we are made of star stuff". What does that mean?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: teacher, that · What happens: say, make, mean · To what, where: we · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: A teacher says "we are made of star stuff".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 teacher	det
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 made	punct
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 made	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 made	aux:pass
7	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 says	ccomp
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 stuff	case
9	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stuff	compound
10	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	obl
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 made	punct
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a teacher						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	make in a quote	present · passive		we				of star stuff	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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: What does that mean?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 mean	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mean	aux
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 mean	nsubj
4	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present · do-support	that						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

We glow in the dark like stars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 glow	nsubj
2	glow	glow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 dark	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dark	det
5	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 glow	obl
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 stars	case
7	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 glow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glow	present	We			the dark		like stars	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dark=Location

Option 2

People came to the Earth from other stars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 Earth	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Earth	det
5	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 stars	case
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stars	amod
8	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	People			other stars		to the Earth	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to earth=Initial_Location from star=Destination

Option 3

People first came to the Earth from planets around other stars long ago

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	nsubj
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 came	advmod
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 Earth	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Earth	det
6	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 planets	case
8	planets	planet	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	obl
9	around	around	ADP	_	11 stars	case
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 stars	amod
11	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	obl
12	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 ago	advmod
13	ago	ago	ADV	_	3 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	People			planets		to the Earth; around other stars; ago, first property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to earth=Initial_Location from planet=Destination

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Much of the carbon and oxygen in us was made inside earlier stars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 made	nsubj:pass
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 carbon	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 carbon	det
4	carbon	carbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Much	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 oxygen	cc
6	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 carbon	conj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 us	case
8	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 carbon	nmod
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 made	aux:pass
10	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	inside	inside	ADV	_	10 made	advmod
12	earlier	early	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 stars	amod
13	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 made	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive		Much of the carbon in us and oxygen				inside property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary star=Product

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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