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Test 2 · The Earth as a planet

In fact the Earth is closest to the Sun in early January. What does that tell a person in Britain?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Earth, that · What happens: be, tell · To what, where: fact, person, Britain · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 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

Sentence 1: In fact the Earth is closest to the Sun in early January.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	2 fact	case
2	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 closest	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Earth	det
4	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 closest	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 closest	cop
6	closest	close	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 Sun	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Sun	det
9	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 closest	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 January	case
11	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 January	amod
12	January	January	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 closest	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 closest	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the Earth			fact	january	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.

Sentence 2: What does that tell a person in Britain?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 tell	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 person	det
6	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 Britain	case
8	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · do-support	that		a person	Britain			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent what=Recipient person=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Distance cannot be what makes the seasons, since January is winter there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 makes	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 makes	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 makes	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 makes	cop
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 makes	nsubj
6	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 seasons	det
8	seasons	season	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 makes	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 winter	punct
10	since	since	ADP	_	13 winter	case
11	January	January	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 winter	compound
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 winter	cop
13	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 makes	parataxis
14	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 winter	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	can	Distance				season	make property	tree rules
2	is	present				there	since January winter		tree rules

Option 2

Britain has summer in January

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 January	case
5	January	January	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 has	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Britain				january; summer		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

The Earth stops tilting in winter

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	3 stops	nsubj
3	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	tilting	tilt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stops	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 winter	case
6	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tilting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	the Earth						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	tilt	gerund	the Earth not said here				winter		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

The Sun must be cooler in January

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Sun	det
2	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 cooler	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 cooler	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 cooler	cop
5	cooler	cool	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 January	case
7	January	January	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 cooler	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	must	the Sun				january	cool property	tree rules

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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