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title: In a game, a star forms in a bright, empty, hot patch of space. what… — How stars live · tree and pragmatics
description: In a game, a star forms in a bright, empty, hot patch of space. what's wrong with that Test 8 · ★★ of lesson 18 «How stars live» 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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# Test 8 · ★★ · How stars live

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In a game, a star forms in a bright, empty, hot patch of space. what's wrong with that

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** star · **What happens:** form, be · **To what, where:** game

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This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 18 «How stars live» of the space 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/space/18-how-stars-live/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:18-how-stars-live:t8:1
# text = In a game, a star forms in a bright, empty, hot patch of space. what's wrong with that
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	forms	form	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
10	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	patch	patch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
19	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **form** | present | a star |  |  | a game |  | in a bright empty hot patch of space | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in game=Location |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | with that; wrong *property* | tree rules |

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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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Stars form inside planets

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:18-how-stars-live:t8:o1:1
# text = Stars form inside planets
1	Stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	form	form	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	planets	planet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **form** | present | Stars |  |  | planets |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside planet=Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nothing, stars need empty space

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:18-how-stars-live:t8:o2:1
# text = Nothing, stars need empty space
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | present | Nothing stars | empty space |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot space=Theme |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Stars form in cold clouds of gas and dust

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:18-how-stars-live:t8:o3:1
# text = Stars form in cold clouds of gas and dust
1	Stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	form	form	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **form** | present | Stars |  |  | cold clouds of gas and dust |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cloud=Location |
| 2 | **cloud** |  |  | gas and dust |  |  |  |  | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Stars only form near the Earth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:18-how-stars-live:t8:o4:1
# text = Stars only form near the Earth
1	Stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	form	form	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	near	near	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **form** | present | Stars |  |  | the Earth |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near earth=Location |

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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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