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title: A bright point does not twinkle and has moved compared with the star… — Stars, planets and constellations in t… · tree and pragmatics
description: A bright point does not twinkle and has moved compared with the stars since last month. What is it probably? Test 3 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 of the question and of each opti
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# Test 3 · Stars, planets and constellations in the night sky

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A bright point does not twinkle and has moved compared with the stars since last month. What is it probably?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** bright point · **What happens:** not twinkle, move, compare, be · **To what, where:** point

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This is test 3 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A bright point does not twinkle and has moved compared with the stars since last month.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:70-the-night-sky:t3:1
# text = A bright point does not twinkle and has moved compared with the stars since last month.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:outer	_	_
4	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	twinkle	twinkle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	moved	move	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
10	compared	compare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	since	since	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **twinkle** | present · do-support | a bright point |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **move** | present · perfect | a bright point *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **compare** | participle | a bright point *not said here* |  |  |  | month | with the stars | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with star=Co-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.

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*Sentence 2:* What is it probably?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:70-the-night-sky:t3:2
# text = What is it probably?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nsubj	_	_
4	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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A planet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:70-the-night-sky:t3:o1:1
# text = A planet
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	planet	planet	NOUN	NN	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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A shooting star

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:70-the-night-sky:t3:o2:1
# text = A shooting star
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	shooting	shooting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	star	star	NOUN	NN	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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A very young star

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:70-the-night-sky:t3:o3:1
# text = A very young star
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	very	very	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	star	star	NOUN	NN	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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A distant galaxy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:70-the-night-sky:t3:o4:1
# text = A distant galaxy
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	galaxy	galaxy	NOUN	NN	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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