Test 8 · Day and night, shadows and sundials

What would happen if the Earth stopped spinning but still went round the Sun?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Earth · What happens: happen, stop, spin, go · To what, where: Sun

This is test 8 of lesson 118 «Day and night, shadows and sundials» 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	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 stopped	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Earth	det
6	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 stopped	nsubj
7	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	spinning	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 stopped	xcomp
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 went	cc
10	still	still	ADV	_	11 went	advmod
11	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stopped	conj
12	round	round	ADP	_	14 Sun	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Sun	det
14	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 went	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stop a condition, not said to happen	past	the Earth			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	spin	gerund	the Earth not said here			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	go	past	the Earth not said here	the Sun	still	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme round sun=Initial_Location

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 · ✓ the right answer

Each place would get months of day, then months of night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 place	det
2	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 get	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 day	case
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 months	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 months	punct
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 months	advmod
10	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 get	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 night	case
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 months	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	each place				month		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It would be daytime everywhere at once

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 daytime	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 daytime	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 daytime	cop
4	daytime	daytime	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 daytime	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 once	case
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 everywhere	obl

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

Option 3

Day and night would stay exactly the same as they are now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Day	Day	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 stay	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 night	cc
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Day	conj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 stay	aux
5	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	8 same	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 same	det
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stay	xcomp
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 are	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 are	nsubj
11	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 stay	advcl
12	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 are	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	would	Day and night					same property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	does	present	they				now		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Sundial shadows would move faster than now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sundial	sundial	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shadows	compound
2	shadows	shadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 move	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 move	aux
4	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 move	advmod
6	than	than	ADP	_	5 faster	fixed
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 move	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	would	Sundial shadows				now	fast property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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