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title: Which star would end as a neutron star or worse rather than a white… — How stars die · tree and pragmatics
description: Which star would end as a neutron star or worse rather than a white dwarf? Test 10 · ★★★ 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 right.
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# Test 10 · ★★★ · How stars die

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Which star would end as a neutron star or worse rather than a white dwarf?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** star · **What happens:** end

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This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 19 «How stars die» 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/19-how-stars-die/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:19-how-stars-die:t10:1
# text = Which star would end as a neutron star or worse rather than a white dwarf?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	end	end	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	neutron	neutron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	conj	_	_
11	rather	rather	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	15	cc	_	_
12	than	than	ADP	IN	_	11	fixed	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **end** | would | which star |  |  |  |  | as a neutron star rather a white dwarf | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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 {#o1}

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A small red dwarf

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:19-how-stars-die:t10:o1:1
# text = A small red dwarf
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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One 15 times heavier than the Sun

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:19-how-stars-die:t10:o2:1
# text = One 15 times heavier than the Sun
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	heavier	heavy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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One half as heavy as the Sun

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:19-how-stars-die:t10:o3:1
# text = One half as heavy as the Sun
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	4	nsubj	_	_
3	as	as	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The Sun

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:19-how-stars-die:t10:o4:1
# text = The Sun
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Sun	Sun	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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