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title: If the universe had always existed with stars everywhere and light h… — Thinking like an astronomer · tree and pragmatics
description: If the universe had always existed with stars everywhere and light had forever to travel, what might the night sky look like? Test 7 · ★★★ of lesson 10 «Thinking like an astronomer» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opti
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# Test 7 · ★★★ · Thinking like an astronomer

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If the universe had always existed with stars everywhere and light had forever to travel, what might the night sky look like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** light, night sky · **What happens:** exist, have, travel, look · **To what, where:** universe

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This is test 7 · ★★★ of lesson 10 «Thinking like an astronomer» of the world 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/world/10-reasoning-about-space/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:10-reasoning-about-space:t7:1
# text = If the universe had always existed with stars everywhere and light had forever to travel, what might the night sky look like?
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	universe	universe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	_
6	existed	exist	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
9	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	travel	travel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	obl	_	_
18	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
23	like	like	ADP	IN	_	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exist** | past · perfect · passive |  | the universe |  |  |  | with stars; always, everywhere *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | light |  |  |  |  | forever *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **travel** | to-infinitive | light *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **look** | might | the night sky |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Completely dark with no stars

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:10-reasoning-about-space:t7:o1:1
# text = Completely dark with no stars
1	Completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Blue like the daytime sky

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:10-reasoning-about-space:t7:o2:1
# text = Blue like the daytime sky
1	Blue	Blue	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	daytime	daytime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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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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Bright in every direction

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:10-reasoning-about-space:t7:o3:1
# text = Bright in every direction
1	Bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Exactly as dark as it is now

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:10-reasoning-about-space:t7:o4:1
# text = Exactly as dark as it is now
1	Exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	as	as	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
7	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  | now | as it; dark, exactly *property* | 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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