Test 3 · ★ · Magnets, compasses and big Earth facts

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

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Earth · What happens: happen, have · To what, where: tilt, all

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 17 «Magnets, compasses and big Earth facts» 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	PART	_	5 winter	mark
5	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 had	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Earth	det
8	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 tilt	det
11	tilt	tilt	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obj
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 all	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 tilt	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would					winter		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 · ✓ the right answer

There would be almost no seasons, and days would stay about the same

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
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stay	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 stay	cc
9	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 stay	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 stay	aux
11	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 be	conj
12	about	about	ADV	_	14 same	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 same	det
14	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 stay	xcomp

#	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
2	stay	would	days					same property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The Earth would stop going round the Sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Earth	det
2	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 stop	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stop	aux
4	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stop	xcomp
6	round	round	ADP	_	8 Sun	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Sun	det
8	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 going	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	the Earth						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	go	gerund	the Earth not said here			the Sun			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme round sun=Initial_Location

Option 4

Every country would get summer at once twice a year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 country	det
2	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 once	case
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 get	advmod
8	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 once	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 year	det
10	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 once	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	every country				summer	once property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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