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title: If there were no agreed list of constellations, what would be harder? — Constellations and the night sky in wi… · tree and pragmatics
description: If there were no agreed list of constellations, what would be harder? Test 6 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 option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 6 · Constellations and the night sky in winter and spring

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If there were no agreed list of constellations, what would be harder?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** agreed list, constellations · **What happens:** be, agree, list · **To what, where:** constellations

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This is test 6 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:20-constellations-and-the-night-sky-in-winter-and-spring:t6:1
# text = If there were no agreed list of constellations, what would be harder?
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
5	agreed	agree	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	list	list	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	constellations	constellation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	nsubj	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
13	harder	hard	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | no agreed list of constellations |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **agree** *speech: agree* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | would | constellations |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **list** |  |  | constellations |  |  |  |  | nom list «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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Seeing the stars at night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:20-constellations-and-the-night-sky-in-winter-and-spring:t6:o1:1
# text = Seeing the stars at night
1	Seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | gerund |  | the stars |  |  | night |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer star=Stimulus |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Keeping the stars from moving

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:20-constellations-and-the-night-sky-in-winter-and-spring:t6:o2:1
# text = Keeping the stars from moving
1	Keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	moving	move	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | gerund |  | the stars |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent star=Theme |
| 2 | **move** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Finding the Moon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:20-constellations-and-the-night-sky-in-winter-and-spring:t6:o3:1
# text = Finding the Moon
1	Finding	find	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | gerund |  | the Moon |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moon=Topic |

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

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Telling people exactly which part of the sky you mean

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:20-constellations-and-the-night-sky-in-winter-and-spring:t6:o4:1
# text = Telling people exactly which part of the sky you mean
1	Telling	tell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	csubj	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	iobj	_	_
3	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	5	det	_	_
5	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	mean	mean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund |  | which part of the sky | people |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent people=Recipient part=Topic |
| 2 | **mean** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |

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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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