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title: who found pulsars, some old professor? — How stars die · tree and pragmatics
description: who found pulsars, some old professor? Test 11 · ★★★ 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 wrong.
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# Test 11 · ★★★ · How stars die

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
who found pulsars, some old professor?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** find · **To what, where:** pulsars

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This is test 11 · ★★★ 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/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:19-how-stars-die:t11:1
# text = who found pulsars, some old professor?
1	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	pulsars	pulsar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	professor	professor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past |  | pulsars and some old professor |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pulsar=Topic |

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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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Yes, Isaac Newton found them in 1687 with his telescope

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:19-how-stars-die:t11:o1:1
# text = Yes, Isaac Newton found them in 1687 with his telescope
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Isaac	Isaac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	Newton	Newton	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	1687	1687	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	telescope	telescope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | Isaac | them *= they* |  | 1687 |  | with Isaac's telescope | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, Galileo in 1610

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:19-how-stars-die:t11:o2:1
# text = Yes, Galileo in 1610
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Galileo	Galileo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	1610	1610	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

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

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No, a student, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, in 1967

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:19-how-stars-die:t11:o3:1
# text = No, a student, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, in 1967
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	student	student	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	Jocelyn	Jocelyn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Bell	Bell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
8	Burnell	Burnell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	1967	1967	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, a space probe in 2017

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:19-how-stars-die:t11:o4:1
# text = No, a space probe in 2017
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	probe	probe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	2017	2017	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

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