Test 11 · ★★ · The date line and summer time: clocks going forward and back

What would happen if Britain kept summer time all winter long?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Britain · What happens: happen, keep

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 121 «The date line and summer time: clocks going forward and back» 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	_	6 kept	mark
5	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 kept	nsubj
6	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 time	compound
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kept	obj
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 winter	det
10	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kept	obl:unmarked
11	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 kept	xcomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep a condition, not said to happen	past	Britain				time; winter	long property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

Winter mornings would be darker, with sunrise later by the clock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Winter	Winter	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 mornings	compound
2	mornings	morning	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 darker	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 darker	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 darker	cop
5	darker	dark	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sunrise	punct
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 sunrise	case
8	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 darker	obl
9	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 sunrise	advmod
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 clock	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 clock	det
12	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 darker	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	Winter mornings				sunrise	by the clock; dark property	tree rules

Option 2

The Sun would rise an hour earlier by the clock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Sun	det
2	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 rise	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 rise	aux
4	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hour	det
6	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rise	obj
7	earlier	early	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 rise	advmod
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 clock	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 clock	det
10	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rise	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise	would	the Sun				hour	by the clock; early property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by clock=Location

Option 3

Nothing at all, since clocks don't affect anything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 affect	punct
5	since	since	SCONJ	_	9 affect	mark
6	clocks	clock	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 affect	nsubj
7	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 affect	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 affect	advmod
9	affect	affect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Nothing	conj
10	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 affect	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not affect	present · do-support	clocks	anything					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus anything=Experiencer

Option 4

Winter days would become an hour longer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Winter	Winter	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 days	compound
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	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hour	det
6	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 become	xcomp
7	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 become	advmod

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

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