--- title: State the name of the person credited with the discovery of pulsars… — How stars die · tree and pragmatics description: State the name of the person credited with the discovery of pulsars in the year nineteen hundred and sixty-seven. Exam question 3 of lesson 19 «How stars die» 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 w --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/19-how-stars-die/e3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Space](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/) / [How stars die](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/19-how-stars-die/) / e3 # Exam question 3 · How stars die State the name of the person credited with the discovery of pulsars in the year nineteen hundred and sixty-seven. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** state, credit, name, discover · **To what, where:** name, person, pulsars This is exam question 3 of lesson 19 «How stars die» 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/19-how-stars-die/#e3). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:space:19-how-stars-die:e3:1 # text = State the name of the person credited with the discovery of pulsars in the year nineteen hundred and sixty-seven. 1 State state VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 credited credit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 discovery discovery NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 pulsars pulsar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 nineteen nineteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 compound _ _ 17 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nmod _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 sixty sixty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **state** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | the name of the person | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent name=Topic | | 2 | **credit** | participle | | the person *not said here* | | | | with the discovery of pulsars in the year nineteen hundred | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent with discovery=Theme | | 3 | **name** | | | the person | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient | | 4 | **discover** | | | pulsars in the year nineteen hundred | | | | | nom discovery «act transitive»: of=patient | 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} Galileo Galilei ```conllu # sent_id = question:space:19-how-stars-die:e3:o1:1 # text = Galileo Galilei 1 Galileo Galileo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 Galilei Galilei PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} William Herschel ```conllu # sent_id = question:space:19-how-stars-die:e3:o2:1 # text = William Herschel 1 William William PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 Herschel Herschel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Jocelyn Bell Burnell ```conllu # sent_id = question:space:19-how-stars-die:e3:o3:1 # text = Jocelyn Bell Burnell 1 Jocelyn Jocelyn PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 Bell Bell PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 Burnell Burnell PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Clyde Tombaugh ```conllu # sent_id = question:space:19-how-stars-die:e3:o4:1 # text = Clyde Tombaugh 1 Clyde Clyde PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 Tombaugh Tombaugh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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