Test 4 · The Sun as a star and the stars

Which is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be

This is test 4 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true 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.

The options

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

The Sun is an ordinary star that is close to us

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Sun	det
2	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 star	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 star	cop
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 star	det
5	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 star	amod
6	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 close	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 close	cop
9	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 star	acl:relcl
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 us	case
11	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 close	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the Sun	a ordinary star					tree rules
2	is	present	a ordinary star		us			close property	tree rules

Option 2

The Sun is a star made of fire and wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Sun	det
2	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 star	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 star	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 star	det
5	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 star	acl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 fire	case
8	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 wood	cc
10	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fire	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the Sun	a star					tree rules
2	make	participle		a star not said here				of fire and wood	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

Option 3

The Sun is a planet that burns

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Sun	det
2	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 planet	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 planet	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 planet	det
5	planet	planet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 burns	nsubj
7	burns	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 planet	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the Sun	a planet					tree rules
2	burn	present	a planet						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

The Sun is the biggest and brightest star in the whole sky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Sun	det
2	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 star	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 star	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 star	det
5	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 star	amod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 brightest	cc
7	brightest	bright	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 biggest	conj
8	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 sky	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sky	det
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sky	amod
12	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 star	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the Sun	the biggest star		the whole sky			tree rules

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