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description: Arrange the following stellar colours in order of increasing surface temperature: blue-white, red, yellow. Exam question 2 of lesson 32 «Olympiad: stars, light and space history ★★★» of the space course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opt
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# Exam question 2 · Olympiad: stars, light and space history ★★★

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Arrange the following stellar colours in order of increasing surface temperature: blue-white, red, yellow.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, order · **What happens:** arrange, follow, increase · **To what, where:** stellar colours, order, surface temperature

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 32 «Olympiad: stars, light and space history ★★★» 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/32-olympiad-stars-light-and-space-history/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:32-olympiad-stars-light-and-space-history:e2:1
# text = Arrange the following stellar colours in order of increasing surface temperature: blue-white, red, yellow.
1	Arrange	arrange	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	case	_	_
4	stellar	stellar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	increasing	increase	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
10	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	temperature	temperature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrange** | imperative | you *not said here* | the stellar colours |  | order |  |  | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent colour=Theme in order=Destination |
| 2 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **increase** | gerund | order *not said here* | surface temperature |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer temperature=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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Blue-white, yellow, red

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:32-olympiad-stars-light-and-space-history:e2:o1:1
# text = Blue-white, yellow, red
1	Blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Yellow, red, blue-white

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:32-olympiad-stars-light-and-space-history:e2:o2:1
# text = Yellow, red, blue-white
1	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Red, yellow, blue-white

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:32-olympiad-stars-light-and-space-history:e2:o3:1
# text = Red, yellow, blue-white
1	Red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Red, blue-white, yellow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:32-olympiad-stars-light-and-space-history:e2:o4:1
# text = Red, blue-white, yellow
1	Red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	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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