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title: Ascertain the star to which the two terminal stars of the bowl of th… — Constellations and the night sky in wi… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the star to which the two terminal stars of the bowl of the Plough, designated the Pointers, are directed. Exam question 3 of lesson 20 «Constellations and the night sky in winter and spring» of the space course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the quest
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# Exam question 3 · Constellations and the night sky in winter and spring

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Ascertain the star to which the two terminal stars of the bowl of the Plough, designated the Pointers, are directed.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, two terminal stars · **What happens:** ascertain, designate, direct · **To what, where:** star, Pointers

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 20 «Constellations and the night sky in winter and spring» 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/20-constellations-and-the-night-sky-in-winter-and-spring/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:20-constellations-and-the-night-sky-in-winter-and-spring:e3:1
# text = Ascertain the star to which the two terminal stars of the bowl of the Plough, designated the Pointers, are directed.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
8	terminal	terminal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Plough	Plough	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
17	designated	designate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Pointers	Pointer	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	directed	direct	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the star |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent star=Topic |
| 2 | **designate** | past | the two terminal stars of the bowl of the Plough | the Pointers |  |  |  | to the star | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent pointer=Theme to which=Attribute |
| 3 | **direct** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7 «NP V» |

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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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Sirius

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:20-constellations-and-the-night-sky-in-winter-and-spring:e3:o1:1
# text = Sirius
1	Sirius	Sirius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Polaris

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:20-constellations-and-the-night-sky-in-winter-and-spring:e3:o2:1
# text = Polaris
1	Polaris	Polaris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Regulus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:20-constellations-and-the-night-sky-in-winter-and-spring:e3:o3:1
# text = Regulus
1	Regulus	regulus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Arcturus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:20-constellations-and-the-night-sky-in-winter-and-spring:e3:o4:1
# text = Arcturus
1	Arcturus	Arcturus	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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