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title: Identify the star, other than the Sun, situated nearest to the Earth. — Distances and light years · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the star, other than the Sun, situated nearest to the Earth. Exam question 3 of lesson 22 «Distances and light years» 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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# Exam question 3 · Distances and light years

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Identify the star, other than the Sun, situated nearest to the Earth.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, situate · **To what, where:** star

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 22 «Distances and light years» 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/22-distances-and-light-years/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:22-distances-and-light-years:e3:1
# text = Identify the star, other than the Sun, situated nearest to the Earth.
1	Identify	identify	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	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	situated	situate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
11	nearest	near	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	parataxis	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	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 star |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent star=Theme |
| 2 | **situate** | participle |  | the star *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent |

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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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Proxima Centauri

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:22-distances-and-light-years:e3:o1:1
# text = Proxima Centauri
1	Proxima	Proxima	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Centauri	Centauri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Polaris

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:22-distances-and-light-years: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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Sirius

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:22-distances-and-light-years:e3:o3:1
# 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 4 {#o4}

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Betelgeuse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:22-distances-and-light-years:e3: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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