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title: Identify the star which presents the greatest apparent brightness in… — Stars: what they are · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the star which presents the greatest apparent brightness in the night sky. Exam question 4 of lesson 17 «Stars: what they are» of the space course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Exam question 4 · Stars: what they are

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Identify the star which presents the greatest apparent brightness in the night sky.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, star · **What happens:** identify, present · **To what, where:** star, greatest apparent brightness, night sky

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 17 «Stars: what they are» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/space/17-stars-what-they-are/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:17-stars-what-they-are:e4:1
# text = Identify the star which presents the greatest apparent brightness in the night sky.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	presents	present	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	amod	_	_
8	apparent	apparent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	brightness	brightness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 | **present** | present | the star | the greatest apparent brightness |  | the night sky |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brightness=Theme |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Polaris

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:17-stars-what-they-are:e4:o1:1
# text = Polaris
1	Polaris	Polaris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Sirius

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:17-stars-what-they-are:e4:o2:1
# text = Sirius
1	Sirius	Sirius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Betelgeuse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:17-stars-what-they-are:e4:o3:1
# text = Betelgeuse
1	Betelgeuse	Betelgeuse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Aldebaran

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:17-stars-what-they-are:e4:o4:1
# text = Aldebaran
1	Aldebaran	Aldebaran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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**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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