Exam question 1 · The Earth as a planet

Identify the cause of the seasonal variation experienced upon the Earth.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, experience, cause · To what, where: cause, seasonal variation

This is exam question 1 of lesson 5 «The Earth as a planet» of the space course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cause	det
3	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 variation	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 variation	det
6	seasonal	seasonal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 variation	amod
7	variation	variation	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cause	nmod
8	experienced	experience	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 variation	acl
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 Earth	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Earth	det
11	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 experienced	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the cause of the seasonal variation		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent cause=Theme
2	experience	participle		the seasonal variation not said here	upon the Earth	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer
3	cause			the seasonal variation		nom cause «event transitive»: of=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

The interposition of the Moon between the Earth and the Sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 interposition	det
2	interposition	interposition	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Moon	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Moon	det
5	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 interposition	nmod
6	between	between	ADP	_	8 Earth	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Earth	det
8	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 interposition	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 Sun	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Sun	det
11	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Earth	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	interpose			the Moon				between the Earth and the Sun	nom interposition «act transitive»: of=patient between=obl

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The inclination of the Earth's axis of rotation

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 inclination	det
2	inclination	inclination	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 axis	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Earth	det
5	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 axis	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Earth	case
7	axis	axis	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 inclination	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 rotation	case
9	rotation	rotation	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 axis	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	incline		the Earth's axis of rotation						nom inclination «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

Option 3

The variation in the distance of the Earth from the Sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 variation	det
2	variation	variation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 distance	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 distance	det
5	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 variation	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 Earth	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Earth	det
8	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 distance	nmod
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 Sun	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Sun	det
11	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 variation	nmod

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

Option 4

The periodic variation in the output of the Sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 variation	det
2	periodic	periodic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 variation	amod
3	variation	variation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 output	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 output	det
6	output	output	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 variation	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 Sun	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Sun	det
9	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 output	nmod

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

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