Test 10 · The Sun as a star and the stars

is the sun a star or what

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

This is test 10 of lesson 5 «The Sun as a star and the stars» of the world 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 star	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sun	det
3	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 star	nsubj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 star	det
5	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 what	cc
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 star	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the sun	a star					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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yes, it's a star, the closest one to us

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 star	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 star	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 star	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 star	det
6	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 one	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 one	det
9	closest	close	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 one	amod
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 star	appos
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 us	case
12	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 one	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a star					tree rules

Option 2

No, stars are much smaller than the Sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 smaller	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 smaller	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 smaller	cop
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 smaller	advmod
6	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
7	than	than	ADP	_	9 Sun	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Sun	det
9	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 smaller	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	stars					than the Sun; small property	tree rules

Option 3

No, it's a giant moon of the Earth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 moon	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 moon	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 moon	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 moon	det
6	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 moon	amod
7	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 Earth	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Earth	det
10	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 moon	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a giant moon				of the Earth	tree rules

Option 4

No, it's a planet that is on fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 planet	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 planet	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 planet	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 planet	det
6	planet	planet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 fire	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 fire	cop
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 fire	case
10	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 planet	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a planet					tree rules
2	is	present	that			fire			tree rules

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