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title: Betelgeuse and Aldebaran are both orange-red winter stars. Which of… — Constellations and the night sky in wi… · tree and pragmatics
description: Betelgeuse and Aldebaran are both orange-red winter stars. Which of them is a corner of the Winter Triangle? Test 11 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 question and of each 
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# Test 11 · Constellations and the night sky in winter and spring

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Betelgeuse and Aldebaran are both orange-red winter stars. Which of them is a corner of the Winter Triangle?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Betelgeuse · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** orange red winter stars, corner

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This is test 11 of lesson 20 «Constellations and the night sky in winter and spring» 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/20-constellations-and-the-night-sky-in-winter-and-spring/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Betelgeuse and Aldebaran are both orange-red winter stars.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:20-constellations-and-the-night-sky-in-winter-and-spring:t11:1
# text = Betelgeuse and Aldebaran are both orange-red winter stars.
1	Betelgeuse	Betelgeuse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	Aldebaran	Aldebaran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
5	both	both	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
6	orange	orange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Betelgeuse and Aldebaran | orange red winter stars |  |  |  | both *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Which of them is a corner of the Winter Triangle?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:20-constellations-and-the-night-sky-in-winter-and-spring:t11:2
# text = Which of them is a corner of the Winter Triangle?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Winter	Winter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Triangle	Triangle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | a corner |  |  |  | of stars *= star*; of the Winter Triangle | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Both of them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:20-constellations-and-the-night-sky-in-winter-and-spring:t11:o1:1
# text = Both of them
1	Both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Neither of them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:20-constellations-and-the-night-sky-in-winter-and-spring:t11:o2:1
# text = Neither of them
1	Neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Aldebaran

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:20-constellations-and-the-night-sky-in-winter-and-spring:t11:o3:1
# text = Aldebaran
1	Aldebaran	Aldebaran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Betelgeuse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:20-constellations-and-the-night-sky-in-winter-and-spring:t11:o4:1
# text = Betelgeuse
1	Betelgeuse	Betelgeuse	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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