Test 5 · ★★ · Phases, eclipses and tides

If the Moon's orbit were not tilted at all, what would happen?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: not tilt, happen · To what, where: orbit, all

This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 7 «Phases, eclipses and tides» 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	_	8 tilted	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Moon	det
3	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 orbit	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Moon	case
5	orbit	orbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tilted	nsubj:pass
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 tilted	aux:pass
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 tilted	advmod
8	tilted	tilt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 happen	advcl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 tilted	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tilted	punct
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 happen	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 happen	aux
14	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tilt a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		the Moon's orbit		all			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme at all=Location
2	happen	would							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

There would be no phases

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	5 phases	det
5	phases	phase	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 be	nsubj

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

Option 2

There would be no tides

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	5 tides	det
5	tides	tide	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 be	nsubj

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

Option 3

There would be no eclipses at all, not ever again, anywhere on Earth

The tree, 13 words

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	5 eclipses	det
5	eclipses	eclipse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 be	nsubj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 be	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 again	punct
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 again	advmod
10	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	11 again	advmod
11	again	again	ADV	_	3 be	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 anywhere	punct
13	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	11 again	conj
14	on	on	ADP	_	15 Earth	case
15	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 anywhere	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	would	no eclipses			all; there	again		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

There would be a solar and a lunar eclipse every month

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	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 solar	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 solar	det
5	solar	solar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 eclipse	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 eclipse	det
8	lunar	lunar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 eclipse	amod
9	eclipse	eclipse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 solar	conj
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 month	det
11	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 solar	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here				month	solar property	tree rules

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