Test 6 · Seasons, terms and holidays

What would happen to Australian seasons if the Earth had no tilt at all?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Earth · What happens: happen, have · To what, where: tilt, all

This is test 6 of lesson 113 «Seasons, terms and holidays» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 seasons	case
5	Australian	Australian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 seasons	amod
6	seasons	season	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	obl
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 had	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Earth	det
9	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 tilt	det
12	tilt	tilt	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 all	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 tilt	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would					season		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have a condition, not said to happen	past	the Earth	no tilt		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tilt=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

Australia and England would swap seasons

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 swap	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 England	cc
3	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Australia	conj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 swap	aux
5	swap	swap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	seasons	season	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 swap	obj

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

Option 2

Australia would have summer all year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 have	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 year	det
6	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obl:unmarked

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

There would be almost no summer or winter anywhere

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	almost	almost	ADV	_	6 summer	advmod
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 summer	det
6	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 be	nsubj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 winter	cc
8	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 summer	conj
9	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 be	advmod

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

Option 4

The seasons would get twice as strong

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 get	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 get	advmod
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 strong	advmod
7	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	the seasons					strong, twice property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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