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title: If the Sun became a red giant tomorrow (it won't), what would happen… — How stars die · tree and pragmatics
description: If the Sun became a red giant tomorrow (it won't), what would happen to Mercury? Test 7 · ★★★ 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 7 · ★★★ · How stars die

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If the Sun became a red giant tomorrow (it won't), what would happen to Mercury?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Sun · **What happens:** become, happen · **To what, where:** red giant, Mercury

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This is test 7 · ★★★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:19-how-stars-die:t7:1
# text = If the Sun became a red giant tomorrow (it won't), what would happen to Mercury?
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	xcomp	_	_
8	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	xcomp	_	_
9	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
15	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	17	nsubj	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Mercury	Mercury	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the Sun | a red giant |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **happen** | would |  |  | Mercury |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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It would be swallowed up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:19-how-stars-die:t7:o1:1
# text = It would be swallowed up
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	swallowed	swallow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swallow up** | would · passive |  | It |  |  |  |  | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It would turn into a comet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:19-how-stars-die:t7:o2:1
# text = It would turn into a comet
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	comet	comet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | would | It |  |  | a comet |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into comet=Trajectory |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It would become a moon of the Earth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:19-how-stars-die:t7:o3:1
# text = It would become a moon of the Earth
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | would | It | a moon of the Earth |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It would be pushed out past Pluto

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:19-how-stars-die:t7:o4:1
# text = It would be pushed out past Pluto
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	pushed	push	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	past	past	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Pluto	Pluto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl:agent	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **push out** | would · passive | Pluto | It |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |

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