Test 6 · ★★ · How stars live

Which star would you bet on to still be shining in a trillion years?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: star · What happens: bet on, shine

This is test 6 · ★★ 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 star	det
2	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bet	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 bet	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 bet	nsubj
5	bet	bet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	5 bet	compound:prt
7	to	to	PART	_	10 shining	mark
8	still	still	ADV	_	10 shining	advmod
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 shining	aux
10	shining	shine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 bet	advcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 years	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 years	det
13	trillion	trillion	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 years	nummod
14	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 shining	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 bet	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bet on	would	which star						vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	shine	to-infinitive · progressive	which star not said here				still; year		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.

The options

Option 1

A star 10 times heavier than the Sun

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	5 heavier	nsubj
3	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 times	nummod
4	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 heavier	obl:unmarked
5	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	than	than	ADP	_	8 Sun	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Sun	det
8	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 heavier	obl

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

A big blue-white star

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 star	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 star	amod
3	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 white	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 blue	punct
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 star	amod
6	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A small red dwarf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 dwarf	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dwarf	amod
3	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dwarf	amod
4	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

The Sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Sun	det
2	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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