Test 9 · ★★ · Seasons and tides

What would happen to seasons if the Earth were not tilted at all?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: happen, not tilt · To what, where: Earth, all

This is test 9 · ★★ 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	_	5 seasons	case
5	seasons	season	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	obl
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 tilted	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Earth	det
8	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 tilted	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 tilted	aux:pass
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 tilted	advmod
11	tilted	tilt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 all	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 tilted	obl
14	?	?	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	not tilt a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		the Earth		all			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme at all=Location

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 · ✓ the right answer

There would be no real summer and winter

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	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 summer	det
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 summer	amod
6	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 be	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 winter	cc
8	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 summer	conj

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

Option 2

Winter would last all year long 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	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 last	advmod
7	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, long property	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Summer would last all year long everywhere

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Summer	summer	NOUN	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	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 last	advmod
7	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 last	advmod

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

Option 4

The seasons would be twice as strong as now

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	7 strong	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 strong	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 strong	cop
5	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 strong	advmod
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 strong	advmod
7	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	as	as	ADP	_	9 now	case
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 strong	obl

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

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