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title: Deneb looks about as bright as Vega. What does that tell us? — Distances and light years · tree and pragmatics
description: Deneb looks about as bright as Vega. What does that tell us? Test 8 · ★ 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 wrong.
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# Test 8 · ★ · Distances and light years

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Deneb looks about as bright as Vega. What does that tell us?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Deneb, that · **What happens:** look, tell · **To what, where:** us · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 22 «Distances and light years» 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/22-distances-and-light-years/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Deneb looks about as bright as Vega.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:22-distances-and-light-years:t8:1
# text = Deneb looks about as bright as Vega.
1	Deneb	Deneb	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	about	about	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	as	as	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Vega	Vega	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | present | Deneb |  |  |  |  | bright *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:* What does that tell us?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:22-distances-and-light-years:t8:2
# text = What does that tell us?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
4	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · do-support | that |  | us |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient what=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Deneb must give out far more light, as it is much farther away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:22-distances-and-light-years:t8:o1:1
# text = Deneb must give out far more light, as it is much farther away
1	Deneb	Deneb	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
6	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	much	much	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
14	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give out** | must | Deneb | more light |  |  |  | away *property* | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent light=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | light |  |  |  |  | far *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Deneb and Vega must be exactly the same distance away from the Earth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:22-distances-and-light-years:t8:o2:1
# text = Deneb and Vega must be exactly the same distance away from the Earth
1	Deneb	Deneb	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	Vega	Vega	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
6	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	away	away	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | must | Deneb and Vega | the same distance |  | the Earth |  | away, exactly *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Deneb is a planet, not a star

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:22-distances-and-light-years:t8:o3:1
# text = Deneb is a planet, not a star
1	Deneb	Deneb	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	planet	planet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Deneb | a planet and a star |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Deneb is nearer but smaller

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:22-distances-and-light-years:t8:o4:1
# text = Deneb is nearer but smaller
1	Deneb	Deneb	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	nearer	near	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Deneb |  |  |  |  | near *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Deneb *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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