Test 11 · Constellations and the night sky in winter and spring
Betelgeuse and Aldebaran are both orange-red winter stars. Which of them is a corner of the Winter Triangle?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Betelgeuse · What happens: be · To what, where: orange red winter stars, corner
This is test 11 of lesson 20 «Constellations and the night sky in winter and spring» 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
Sentence 1: Betelgeuse and Aldebaran are both orange-red winter stars.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Betelgeuse | Betelgeuse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 stars | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Aldebaran | cc |
| 3 | Aldebaran | Aldebaran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Betelgeuse | conj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 stars | cop |
| 5 | both | both | ADV | _ | 10 stars | advmod |
| 6 | orange | orange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 stars | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 orange | punct |
| 8 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 stars | amod |
| 9 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stars | compound |
| 10 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 stars | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Betelgeuse and Aldebaran | orange red winter stars | both property | tree rules |
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.
Sentence 2: Which of them is a corner of the Winter Triangle?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 corner | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 corner | obl |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 corner | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 corner | det |
| 6 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Triangle | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Triangle | det |
| 9 | Winter | Winter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Triangle | compound |
| 10 | Triangle | Triangle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 corner | nmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 corner | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a corner | of stars = star; of the Winter Triangle | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Both of them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Both | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Neither of them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Neither | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Aldebaran
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aldebaran | Aldebaran | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Betelgeuse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Betelgeuse | Betelgeuse | 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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