Test 6 · ★★ · Seasons and tides

What would happen to the calendar if there were no leap years?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen, be

This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 40 «Seasons and tides» of the physics 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 calendar	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 calendar	det
6	calendar	calendar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 were	mark
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 were	expl
9	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 years	det
11	leap	leap	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 years	compound
12	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 were	obl:unmarked
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to the calendar	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	be a condition, not said to happen	past				there	year		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 year would be a day shorter, and summer would vanish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 year	det
2	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shorter	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 shorter	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 shorter	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shorter	obl:unmarked
7	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 vanish	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 vanish	cc
10	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 vanish	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 vanish	aux
12	vanish	vanish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 shorter	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	every year				day	short property	tree rules
2	vanish	would	summer						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

The Moon would change its shape

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Moon	det
2	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 change	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 change	aux
4	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 shape	nmod:poss
6	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 change	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	the Moon	Moon's shape					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Patient

Option 3

Nothing at all would change

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 change	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 change	aux
5	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	Nothing						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The seasons would slowly drift through the months

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 seasons	det
2	seasons	season	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 drift	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 drift	aux
4	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	5 drift	advmod
5	drift	drift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	through	through	ADP	_	8 months	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 months	det
8	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 drift	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drift	would	the seasons				month	slowly property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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