Exam question 1 · Seasons, terms and holidays
Identify the principal cause of the seasons upon the Earth.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, cause · To what, where: principal cause, seasons
This is exam question 1 of lesson 113 «Seasons, terms and holidays» of the world course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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 | Identify | identify | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cause | det |
| 3 | principal | principal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cause | amod |
| 4 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 seasons | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 seasons | det |
| 7 | seasons | season | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 cause | nmod |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 Earth | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Earth | det |
| 10 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 seasons | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Identify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | imperative | you not said here | the principal cause of the seasons upon the Earth | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent cause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cause | the seasons upon the Earth | nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient |
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 variation in the Sun's size
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 variation | det |
| 2 | variation | variation | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 size | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Sun | det |
| 5 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 size | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Sun | case |
| 7 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 variation | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The inclination of the Earth's axis
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 inclination | det |
| 2 | inclination | inclination | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 axis | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Earth | det |
| 5 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 axis | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Earth | case |
| 7 | axis | axis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 inclination | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | incline | the Earth's axis | nom inclination «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |
Option 3
The variation in distance from the Sun
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 variation | det |
| 2 | variation | variation | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 distance | case |
| 4 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 variation | nmod |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 Sun | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Sun | det |
| 7 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 distance | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The obstruction of sunlight by the Moon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 obstruction | det |
| 2 | obstruction | obstruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 sunlight | case |
| 4 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 obstruction | nmod |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 Moon | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Moon | det |
| 7 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 obstruction | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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