Exam question 1 · The night sky in summer and autumn, and the southern sky
Identify the three stars which together constitute the star pattern designated the Summer Triangle.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, star pattern · What happens: identify, constitute, designate · To what, where: three stars, Summer Triangle
This is exam question 1 of lesson 21 «The night sky in summer and autumn, and the southern sky» 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 | Identify | identify | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 stars | det |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 stars | nummod |
| 4 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Identify | obj |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 constitute | obj |
| 6 | together | together | ADV | _ | 7 constitute | advmod |
| 7 | constitute | constitute | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 stars | acl:relcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 pattern | det |
| 9 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pattern | compound |
| 10 | pattern | pattern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 designated | nsubj |
| 11 | designated | designate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 constitute | ccomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Triangle | det |
| 13 | Summer | Summer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Triangle | compound |
| 14 | Triangle | Triangle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 designated | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Identify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | imperative | you not said here | the three stars | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent star=Theme | ||||
| 2 | constitute | present | the three stars | together property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | designate | past | the star pattern | the Summer Triangle | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent triangle=Theme |
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
Antares, Altair and Rigel
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Antares | Antares | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Altair | punct |
| 3 | Altair | Altair | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Antares | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Rigel | cc |
| 5 | Rigel | Rigel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Antares | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Sirius, Procyon and Betelgeuse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sirius | Sirius | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Procyon | punct |
| 3 | Procyon | Procyon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Sirius | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Betelgeuse | cc |
| 5 | Betelgeuse | Betelgeuse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Sirius | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Polaris, Vega and Capella
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Polaris | Polaris | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Vega | punct |
| 3 | Vega | Vega | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Polaris | appos |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Capella | cc |
| 5 | Capella | Capella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Polaris | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Vega, Deneb and Altair
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vega | Vega | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Deneb | punct |
| 3 | Deneb | Deneb | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Vega | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Altair | cc |
| 5 | Altair | Altair | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Vega | 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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