Test 13 · The Sun as a star and the stars

a kid in class said red stars are the hottest ones. right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kid, red stars · What happens: say, be · To what, where: hottest ones · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 kid	det
2	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 class	case
4	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kid	nmod
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stars	amod
7	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 ones	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 ones	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ones	det
10	hottest	hot	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 ones	amod
11	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 said	ccomp
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 ones	punct
13	right	right	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	a kid in class						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	red stars	the hottest ones					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

Yes, red means the star is the hottest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	red	red	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 star	det
6	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hottest	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 hottest	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hottest	det
9	hottest	hot	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 means	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	red						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	the star					hot property	tree rules

Option 2

No, white stars are always the coldest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 white	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stars	amod
4	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 coldest	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 coldest	cop
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 coldest	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 coldest	det
8	coldest	cold	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	white stars					always, cold property	tree rules

Option 3

Yes, red and blue stars are just as hot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 red	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 red	punct
3	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stars	amod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 blue	cc
5	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 red	conj
6	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 hot	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 hot	cop
8	just	just	ADV	_	10 hot	advmod
9	as	as	ADV	_	10 hot	advmod
10	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	red stars					hot property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, blue stars are hotter than red stars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 hotter	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hotter	punct
3	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stars	amod
4	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hotter	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 hotter	cop
6	hotter	hot	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
7	than	than	ADP	_	9 stars	case
8	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stars	amod
9	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hotter	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	blue stars					than red stars; hot property	tree rules

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