Test 8 · ★★ · How stars live

In a game, a star forms in a bright, empty, hot patch of space. what's wrong with that

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: star · What happens: form, be · To what, where: game

This is test 8 · ★★ 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 game	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 game	det
3	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 forms	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 game	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 star	det
6	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 forms	nsubj
7	forms	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	15 patch	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 patch	det
10	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 patch	amod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bright	punct
12	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 patch	amod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 empty	punct
14	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 patch	amod
15	patch	patch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 forms	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 space	case
17	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 patch	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 forms	punct
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 wrong	nsubj
20	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 wrong	cop
21	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 forms	parataxis
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 that	case
23	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 wrong	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	form	present	a star			a game		in a bright empty hot patch of space	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in game=Location
2	is	present						with that; wrong 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 · ← Mova's choice

Stars form inside planets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 form	nsubj
2	form	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	inside	inside	ADP	_	4 planets	case
4	planets	planet	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 form	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	form	present	Stars			planets			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside planet=Location

Option 2

Nothing, stars need empty space

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 stars	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 need	nsubj
4	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 space	amod
6	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	Nothing stars	empty space					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot space=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Stars form in cold clouds of gas and dust

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 form	nsubj
2	form	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 clouds	case
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 clouds	amod
5	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 form	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 gas	case
7	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 clouds	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 dust	cc
9	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gas	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	form	present	Stars			cold clouds of gas and dust			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cloud=Location
2	cloud			gas and dust					nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

Stars only form near the Earth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 form	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 form	advmod
3	form	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	near	near	ADP	_	6 Earth	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Earth	det
6	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 form	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	form	present	Stars			the Earth			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near earth=Location

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