Test 6 · ★★★ · How stars die
bloody hell, my gold ring was made by crashing stars??
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: bloody hell · What happens: make, crash · To what, where: gold ring, stars
This is test 6 · ★★★ 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 | bloody | bloody | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 hell | amod |
| 2 | hell | hell | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 made | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 ring | nmod:poss |
| 5 | gold | gold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ring | amod |
| 6 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 made | aux:pass |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 hell | acl:relcl |
| 9 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 10 crashing | mark |
| 10 | crashing | crash | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 made | advcl |
| 11 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 crashing | obj |
| 12 | ?? | ?? | PUNCT | _ | 2 hell | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · passive | bloody hell not said here | my gold ring | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | crash | gerund | bloody hell not said here | stars | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent star=Patient |
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
No, gold is made by the Sun every day and falls to the Earth as dust
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 made | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | aux:pass |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 Sun | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Sun | det |
| 8 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obl |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 day | det |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 falls | cc |
| 12 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 Earth | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Earth | det |
| 15 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 falls | obl |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 dust | case |
| 17 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 falls | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · passive | the Sun | gold | day | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product | |||
| 2 | fall | present | the Sun not said here | to the Earth; as dust | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to earth=Pivot |
Option 2
No, all gold is made slowly in the Earth's rocks by heat and pressure
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 made | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 gold | det |
| 4 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 made | aux:pass |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 6 made | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 rocks | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Earth | det |
| 10 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 rocks | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Earth | case |
| 12 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 made | obl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 heat | case |
| 14 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 pressure | cc |
| 16 | pressure | pressure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 heat | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · passive | heat and pressure | all gold | the Earth's rocks | slowly property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product |
Option 3
Yes, but only the gold that is found on the Moon, not on the Earth
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 gold | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 gold | cc |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 gold | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 gold | det |
| 6 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 found | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 found | aux:pass |
| 9 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 gold | acl:relcl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 Moon | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Moon | det |
| 12 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 found | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Earth | punct |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 Earth | advmod |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 Earth | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Earth | det |
| 17 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Moon | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present · passive | the gold | the Moon and the Earth | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Much gold is thought to come from neutron stars crashing together
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 gold | amod |
| 2 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thought | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | aux:pass |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 come | mark |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 thought | xcomp |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 stars | case |
| 8 | neutron | neutron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stars | compound |
| 9 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 come | obl |
| 10 | crashing | crash | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 stars | acl |
| 11 | together | together | ADV | _ | 10 crashing | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present · passive | Much gold | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | to-infinitive | neutron stars | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from star=Initial_Location | |||||
| 3 | crash | gerund | neutron stars not said here | together property | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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