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title: Identify the three stars which together constitute the star pattern… — The night sky in summer and autumn, an… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the three stars which together constitute the star pattern designated the Summer Triangle. Exam question 1 of lesson 21 «The night sky in summer and autumn, and the southern sky» of the space course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of eac
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# Exam question 1 · The night sky in summer and autumn, and the southern sky

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Identify the three stars which together constitute the star pattern designated the Summer Triangle.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, star pattern · **What happens:** identify, constitute, designate · **To what, where:** three stars, Summer Triangle

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 21 «The night sky in summer and autumn, and the southern sky» 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/21-the-night-sky-in-summer-and-autumn-and-the-southern-sky/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:21-the-night-sky-in-summer-and-autumn-and-the-southern-sky:e1:1
# text = Identify the three stars which together constitute the star pattern designated the Summer Triangle.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	obj	_	_
6	together	together	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	constitute	constitute	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	pattern	pattern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	designated	designate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Summer	Summer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Triangle	Triangle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the three stars |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent star=Theme |
| 2 | **constitute** | present |  | the three stars |  |  |  | together *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **designate** | past | the star pattern | the Summer Triangle |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent triangle=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 {#o1}

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Antares, Altair and Rigel

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:21-the-night-sky-in-summer-and-autumn-and-the-southern-sky:e1:o1:1
# text = Antares, Altair and Rigel
1	Antares	Antares	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	Altair	Altair	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	Rigel	Rigel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Sirius, Procyon and Betelgeuse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:21-the-night-sky-in-summer-and-autumn-and-the-southern-sky:e1:o2:1
# text = Sirius, Procyon and Betelgeuse
1	Sirius	Sirius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	Procyon	Procyon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	Betelgeuse	Betelgeuse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Polaris, Vega and Capella

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:21-the-night-sky-in-summer-and-autumn-and-the-southern-sky:e1:o3:1
# text = Polaris, Vega and Capella
1	Polaris	Polaris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	Vega	Vega	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	Capella	Capella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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Vega, Deneb and Altair

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:21-the-night-sky-in-summer-and-autumn-and-the-southern-sky:e1:o4:1
# text = Vega, Deneb and Altair
1	Vega	Vega	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	Deneb	Deneb	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	Altair	Altair	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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