Test 1 · Day and night

If the Earth stopped spinning, what would happen to day and night?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Earth · What happens: stop, spin, happen

This is test 1 of lesson 1 «Day and night» of the world 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 stopped	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Earth	det
3	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 stopped	nsubj
4	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	spinning	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stopped	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 happen	punct
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 happen	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 happen	aux
9	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 spinning	ccomp
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 day	case
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 happen	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 night	cc
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 day	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 stopped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	stop	past	the Earth		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	spin	gerund	the Earth not said here		tree rules
3	happen	would		day	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 right answer

One side would have a very long day and the other a very long night

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 side	nummod
2	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 day	det
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 long	advmod
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 day	amod
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 night	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 other	det
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 night	nsubj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 night	det
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 long	advmod
14	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 night	amod
15	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 day	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	One side				day		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	night		the other						tree rules

Option 2

The days would become much shorter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 days	det
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 become	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 become	aux
4	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 shorter	advmod
6	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	the days					short property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 3

It would be night everywhere at the same time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 night	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 night	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 night	cop
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 night	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	9 time	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 time	det
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 time	amod
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 everywhere	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	would	It	night				everywhere property	tree rules

Option 4

Nothing would change at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 change	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 change	aux
3	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 change	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	Nothing			all			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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