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title: You take a long-exposure photo (the camera stays open for hours) of… — Stars, planets and constellations in t… · tree and pragmatics
description: You take a long-exposure photo (the camera stays open for hours) of the northern sky. The stars make circles. Which star is near the centre? Test 1 of lesson 70 «Stars, planets and constellations in the night sky» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics 
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# Test 1 · Stars, planets and constellations in the night sky

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You take a long-exposure photo (the camera stays open for hours) of the northern sky. The stars make circles. Which star is near the centre?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** You, camera, stars, star · **What happens:** take, stay, make, be · **To what, where:** long exposure photo, circles, centre

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This is test 1 of lesson 70 «Stars, planets and constellations in the night sky» 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/70-the-night-sky/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* You take a long-exposure photo (the camera stays open for hours) of the northern sky.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:70-the-night-sky:t1:1
# text = You take a long-exposure photo (the camera stays open for hours) of the northern sky.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	exposure	exposure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	photo	photo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	camera	camera	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present | You | a long exposure photo |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent photo=Theme |
| 2 | **stay** | present | the camera | a long exposure photo *not said here* |  |  | hour | of the northern sky; open *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme photo=Location |

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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:* The stars make circles.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:70-the-night-sky:t1:2
# text = The stars make circles.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	circles	circle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | the stars | circles |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset circle=Product |

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*Sentence 3:* Which star is near the centre?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:70-the-night-sky:t1:3
# text = Which star is near the centre?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	near	near	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | which star |  |  | the centre |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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The Sun

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:70-the-night-sky:t1:o1:1
# text = The Sun
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The Southern Cross

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:70-the-night-sky:t1:o2:1
# text = The Southern Cross
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Southern	Southern	PROPN	NNP	_	3	flat	_	_
3	Cross	Cross	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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Venus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:70-the-night-sky:t1:o3:1
# text = Venus
1	Venus	Venus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Polaris, the North Star

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:70-the-night-sky:t1:o4:1
# text = Polaris, the North Star
1	Polaris	Polaris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Star	Star	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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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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