Exam question 4 · How stars die

Ascertain the remnant of the stellar explosion recorded by Chinese astronomers in the year one thousand and fifty-four.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, stellar explosion · What happens: ascertain, record · To what, where: remnant, one thousand

This is exam question 4 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 remnant	det
3	remnant	remnant	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 explosion	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 explosion	det
6	stellar	stellar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 explosion	amod
7	explosion	explosion	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 remnant	nmod
8	recorded	record	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 explosion	acl
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 astronomers	case
10	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 astronomers	amod
11	astronomers	astronomer	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 recorded	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 year	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 year	det
14	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 recorded	obl
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 thousand	compound
16	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 recorded	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 four	cc
18	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 four	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 fifty	punct
20	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 thousand	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the remnant of the stellar explosion					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remnant=Topic
2	record	participle	the stellar explosion not said here	one thousand			year	by Chinese astronomers	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

The Crab Nebula

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Nebula	det
2	Crab	Crab	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Nebula	compound
3	Nebula	Nebula	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The Eagle Nebula

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Nebula	det
2	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Nebula	compound
3	Nebula	Nebula	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The Pleiades

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

The Large Magellanic Cloud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Cloud	det
2	Large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Cloud	amod
3	Magellanic	Magellanic	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Cloud	compound
4	Cloud	Cloud	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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