Exam question 2 · The seasons and the tilt of the axis
It is given that the Northern Hemisphere is inclined towards the Sun. State the season then prevailing in the Southern Hemisphere.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: give, incline, prevail · To what, where: It, Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere
This is exam question 2 of lesson 2 «The seasons and the tilt of the axis» 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 given | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | aux:pass |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 inclined | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Hemisphere | det |
| 6 | Northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Hemisphere | amod |
| 7 | Hemisphere | hemisphere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 inclined | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 inclined | aux:pass |
| 9 | inclined | incline | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 given | advcl |
| 10 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 15 season | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 State | det |
| 12 | Sun. | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 State | compound |
| 13 | State | State | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 season | compound |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 season | det |
| 15 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 inclined | obl |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 prevailing | advmod |
| 17 | prevailing | prevail | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 inclined | advcl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 Hemisphere | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Hemisphere | det |
| 20 | Southern | Southern | PROPN | _ | 21 Hemisphere | compound |
| 21 | Hemisphere | hemisphere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 prevailing | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · passive | It | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | incline | present · passive | the Northern Hemisphere | season | vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | prevail | gerund | the Southern Hemisphere | then | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hemisphere=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 · ← Mova's choice
Summer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
No season whatsoever
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 season | det |
| 2 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | whatsoever | whatsoever | ADV | _ | 2 season | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Winter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Winter | Winter | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Spring
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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