Exam question 3 · Constellations and the night sky in winter and spring

Ascertain the star to which the two terminal stars of the bowl of the Plough, designated the Pointers, are directed.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, two terminal stars · What happens: ascertain, designate, direct · To what, where: star, Pointers

This is exam question 3 of lesson 20 «Constellations and the night sky in winter and spring» 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 star	det
3	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 designated	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stars	det
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 stars	nummod
8	terminal	terminal	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stars	compound
9	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 designated	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 bowl	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bowl	det
12	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stars	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 Plough	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Plough	det
15	Plough	Plough	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 bowl	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 stars	punct
17	designated	designate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 star	acl:relcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Pointers	det
19	Pointers	Pointer	PROPN	Number=Plur	17 designated	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 directed	punct
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 directed	aux:pass
22	directed	direct	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Ascertain	parataxis
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the star		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent star=Topic
2	designate	past	the two terminal stars of the bowl of the Plough	the Pointers	to the star	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent pointer=Theme to which=Attribute
3	direct	present · passive				vn performance-26.7 «NP V»

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

Sirius

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sirius	Sirius	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Polaris

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Polaris	Polaris	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Regulus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Regulus	regulus	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Arcturus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Arcturus	Arcturus	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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