Test 6 · Climate zones

When it is summer in Ukraine, what season is it in Australia?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: it, Australia, summer · What happens: be, season · To what, where: summer, Ukraine, Australia

This is test 6 of lesson 16 «Climate zones» 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 summer	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 summer	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 summer	cop
4	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Australia	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Ukraine	case
6	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 summer	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 season	punct
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 season	nsubj
9	season	season	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Australia	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 Australia	cop
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 Australia	nsubj
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 Australia	case
13	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 Australia	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	it	summer	Ukraine	tree rules
2	season		Australia			tree rules
3	is	present	summer		Australia	tree rules

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, because Australia is in the southern half of the Earth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Winter	Winter	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 half	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Winter	punct
3	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	4 Australia	case
4	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Winter	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 half	cop
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 half	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 half	det
8	southern	southern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 half	amod
9	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	root	root
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 Earth	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Earth	det
12	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 half	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Winter because Australia			the southern half		of the Earth	tree rules

Option 2

Autumn, because Australia is on the other side of the whole world

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Autumn	Autumn	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 side	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 side	mark
4	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 side	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 side	cop
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 side	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 side	det
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 side	amod
9	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Autumn	appos
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 world	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 world	det
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 world	amod
13	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 side	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Australia			the other side		of the whole world	tree rules

Option 3

Also summer, because it is the same planet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Also	also	ADV	_	2 summer	advmod
2	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 planet	punct
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 planet	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 planet	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 planet	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 planet	det
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 planet	amod
9	planet	planet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 summer	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	the same planet					tree rules

Option 4

Spring, because Australia is ahead in time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ahead	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Spring	punct
3	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	4 Australia	case
4	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Spring	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 ahead	cop
6	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 time	case
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ahead	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Spring because Australia				time	ahead property	tree rules

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