Test 1 · The Earth as a planet

my cousin reckons it's summer cos we're closer to the Sun then. right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cousin, we · What happens: reckon, be · To what, where: summer

This is test 1 of lesson 5 «The Earth as a planet» of the space 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 cousin	nmod:poss
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reckons	nsubj
3	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 summer	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 summer	cop
6	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reckons	ccomp
7	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	10 closer	mark
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 closer	nsubj
9	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 closer	cop
10	closer	close	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 reckons	advcl
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 Sun	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Sun	det
13	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 closer	obl
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 closer	advmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 reckons	punct
16	right	right	ADV	_	3 reckons	advmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 reckons	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	my cousin			right property	vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	cousin	summer			tree rules
3	is	present	we		then	to the Sun; close property	tree rules

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

Yes, distance is the whole reason

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 reason	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reason	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 reason	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 reason	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 reason	amod
7	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	distance	the whole reason					tree rules

Option 2

No, summer is caused by the Moon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 caused	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 caused	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 caused	aux:pass
5	caused	cause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 Moon	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Moon	det
8	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 caused	obl:agent

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	present · passive	the Moon	summer					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient

Option 3

Yes, and winter is when the Sun cools down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	9 cools	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 when	cc
4	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 when	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 when	cop
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 cools	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Sun	det
8	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 cools	nsubj
9	cools	cool	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	down	down	ADP	_	9 cools	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cool down	present	the Sun						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, summer is when our half of the Earth leans towards the Sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 when	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 when	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 when	cop
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 leans	mark
6	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 half	nmod:poss
7	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	11 leans	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 Earth	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Earth	det
10	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 half	nmod
11	leans	lean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	towards	towards	ADP	_	14 Sun	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Sun	det
14	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 leans	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lean	present	our half of the Earth					towards the Sun	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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