Test 3 · The Earth as a planet

If the Earth had no tilt at all, what would happen to the seasons?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Earth, tilt · What happens: have, happen · To what, where: tilt, all

This is test 3 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 had	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Earth	det
3	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 tilt	det
6	tilt	tilt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 tilt	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 happen	punct
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 happen	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 happen	aux
12	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tilt	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 seasons	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 seasons	det
15	seasons	season	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 happen	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the Earth	no tilt		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tilt=Patient
2	happen	would	no tilt				season		vn occur-48.3-1 «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

The seasons would swap round

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	4 swap	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 swap	aux
4	swap	swap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	round	round	ADV	_	4 swap	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swap	would	the seasons					round property	vn substitute-13.6.2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They would almost disappear, every day of the year would be much the same

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 disappear	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 disappear	aux
3	almost	almost	ADV	_	4 disappear	advmod
4	disappear	disappear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 disappear	punct
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 same	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 year	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 year	det
10	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 day	nmod
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 same	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 same	cop
13	much	much	ADV	_	15 same	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 same	det
15	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 disappear	parataxis

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

Option 3

Summer would last all year 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	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 property	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Winter would last all year 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	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 property	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme

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