Test 5 · ★★ · Earth from space

What would happen to the seasons if the Earth had no tilt at all?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Earth · What happens: happen, have · To what, where: tilt, all

This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 13 «Earth from space» of the myths 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 seasons	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 seasons	det
6	seasons	season	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	obl
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 had	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Earth	det
9	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 tilt	det
12	tilt	tilt	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 all	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 tilt	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would					season		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have a condition, not said to happen	past	the Earth	no tilt		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tilt=Patient

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

Every season would be summer everywhere

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 season	det
2	season	season	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 summer	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 summer	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 summer	cop
5	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 summer	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	would	every season	summer				everywhere property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

There would be almost no seasons

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 be	expl
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 be	aux
3	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	almost	almost	ADV	_	6 seasons	advmod
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 seasons	det
6	seasons	season	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 be	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	would	no seasons			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Seasons would be twice as strong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seasons	season	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 strong	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 strong	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 strong	cop
4	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 strong	advmod
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 strong	advmod
6	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	Seasons					strong, twice property	tree rules

Option 4

Winter would last all year everywhere

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Winter	Winter	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 last	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 last	aux
3	last	last	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 year	det
5	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 last	obl:unmarked
6	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 last	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	last	would	Winter				year	everywhere property	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/myths/13-earth-from-space/t5/