Exam question 4 · Constellations and the night sky in winter and spring
Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning the three stars which constitute the Winter Triangle.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, response, established facts, three stars · What happens: select, be, establish, concern, constitute · To what, where: response, three stars, Winter Triangle
This is exam question 4 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 | Select | select | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 response | det |
| 3 | response | response | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Select | obj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 consistent | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 consistent | cop |
| 6 | consistent | consistent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 response | acl:relcl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 facts | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 facts | det |
| 9 | established | establish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 facts | amod |
| 10 | facts | fact | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 consistent | obl |
| 11 | concerning | concern | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 facts | acl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 stars | det |
| 13 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 stars | nummod |
| 14 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 concerning | obj |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 constitute | nsubj |
| 16 | constitute | constitute | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 stars | acl:relcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Triangle | det |
| 18 | Winter | Winter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Triangle | compound |
| 19 | Triangle | Triangle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 constitute | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Select | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | select | imperative | you not said here | the response | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the response | with the established facts; consistent property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | establish | participle | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 4 | concern | gerund | the established facts not said here | the three stars | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus star=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | constitute | present | the three stars | the Winter Triangle | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme triangle=Pivot |
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
Aldebaran, Altair and Vega
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aldebaran | Aldebaran | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Altair | punct |
| 3 | Altair | Altair | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Aldebaran | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Vega | cc |
| 5 | Vega | Vega | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Aldebaran | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Arcturus, Spica and Polaris
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Arcturus | Arcturus | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Spica | punct |
| 3 | Spica | Spica | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Arcturus | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Polaris | cc |
| 5 | Polaris | Polaris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Arcturus | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Betelgeuse, Sirius and Procyon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Betelgeuse | Betelgeuse | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Sirius | punct |
| 3 | Sirius | Sirius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Betelgeuse | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Procyon | cc |
| 5 | Procyon | Procyon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Betelgeuse | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Castor, Pollux and Regulus
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Castor | castor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Pollux | punct |
| 3 | Pollux | Pollux | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Castor | appos |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Regulus | cc |
| 5 | Regulus | Regulus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Pollux | conj |
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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