Exam question 1 · How stars die

Identify the final remnant of a star of a mass comparable to that of the Sun.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify · To what, where: final remnant

This is exam question 1 of lesson 19 «How stars die» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 remnant	det
3	final	final	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 remnant	amod
4	remnant	remnant	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 star	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 star	det
7	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 remnant	nmod
8	of	of	SCONJ	_	11 comparable	mark
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 comparable	det
10	mass	mass	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 comparable	amod
11	comparable	comparable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 star	acl
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 that	case
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 comparable	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 Sun.	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Sun.	det
16	Sun.	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 that	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the final remnant of a star					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent remnant=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

A protostar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 protostar	det
2	protostar	protostar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A supernova

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 supernova	det
2	supernova	supernova	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A white dwarf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

A neutron star

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 star	det
2	neutron	neutron	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 star	compound
3	star	star	NOUN	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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