Exam question 3 · Distances and light years

Identify the star, other than the Sun, situated nearest to the Earth.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, situate · To what, where: star

This is exam question 3 of lesson 22 «Distances and light years» 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	3 star	det
3	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 other	punct
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 star	amod
6	than	than	ADP	_	8 Sun	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Sun	det
8	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 other	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 situated	punct
10	situated	situate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 star	acl
11	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 situated	parataxis
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 Earth	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Earth	det
14	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 nearest	obl
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 star					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent star=Theme
2	situate	participle		the star not said here					vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

Proxima Centauri

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Proxima	Proxima	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Centauri	Centauri	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Proxima	flat

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

Option 2

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

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 4

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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