Test 10 · ★★★ · How stars die

Which star would end as a neutron star or worse rather than a white dwarf?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: star · What happens: end

This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 19 «How stars die» 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	4 end	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 end	aux
4	end	end	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	8 star	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 star	det
7	neutron	neutron	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 star	compound
8	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 end	obl
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 worse	cc
10	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 star	conj
11	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	15 dwarf	cc
12	than	than	ADP	_	11 rather	fixed
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 dwarf	det
14	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 dwarf	amod
15	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 star	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 end	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end	would	which star					as a neutron star rather a white dwarf	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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 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 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

One 15 times heavier than the Sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 15	compound
2	15	15	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 times	nummod
3	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 heavier	obl:unmarked
4	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	than	than	ADP	_	7 Sun	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Sun	det
7	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 heavier	obl

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

Option 3

One half as heavy as the Sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 half	nummod
2	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	4 heavy	nsubj
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 heavy	advmod
4	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	7 Sun	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Sun	det
7	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 heavy	obl

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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