Test 1 · ★ · Climate zones and why they are where they are

My mate says it's summer cos Earth is closer to the Sun. Right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, summer · What happens: say, be · To what, where: summer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 21 «Climate zones and why they are where they are» of the geography 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 summer	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 summer	cop
6	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 closer	nsubj
7	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	8 Earth	case
8	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 summer	nmod
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 closer	cop
10	closer	close	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 says	ccomp
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 Sun.	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Sun.	det
13	Sun.	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 closer	obl
14	Right	right	INTJ	_	3 says	discourse
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	My mate				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	mate	summer		cos Earth	tree rules
3	is	present	summer		sunday	close property	tree rules

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, but only in the northern hemisphere

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 hemisphere	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 hemisphere	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	8 hemisphere	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 hemisphere	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hemisphere	det
7	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hemisphere	amod
8	hemisphere	hemisphere	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, the tilt of the axis makes the seasons

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 makes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 makes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tilt	det
4	tilt	tilt	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 makes	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 axis	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 axis	det
7	axis	axis	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tilt	nmod
8	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 seasons	det
10	seasons	season	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 makes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	the tilt of the axis				season		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	tilt		the axis						nom tilt «event intransitive»: of=agent

Option 3

No, the Sun just shines harder in summer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 shines	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Sun	det
4	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 shines	nsubj
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 shines	advmod
6	shines	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 shines	xcomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 summer	case
9	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 harder	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shine	present	the Sun					hard property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location

Option 4

Yes, Earth is closest to the Sun in summer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 closest	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 closest	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 closest	cop
5	closest	close	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 Sun	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Sun	det
8	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 closest	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 summer	case
10	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 closest	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Earth				summer	to the Sun; close property	tree rules

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