Test 1 · ★ · The seasons and the tilt of the axis

If the Earth's axis were not tilted at all, what would happen?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: not tilt, happen · To what, where: axis, all

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 2 «The seasons and the tilt of the axis» 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	8 tilted	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Earth	det
3	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 axis	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Earth	case
5	axis	axis	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tilted	nsubj:pass
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 tilted	aux:pass
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 tilted	advmod
8	tilted	tilt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 happen	advcl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 tilted	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tilted	punct
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 happen	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 happen	aux
14	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tilt a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		the Earth's axis		all			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme at all=Location
2	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Every day would be twice as long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 twice	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 twice	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 twice	cop
5	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	root	root
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 long	advmod
7	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 twice	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	every day					long, twice property	tree rules

Option 2

Every place would have a long summer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 place	det
2	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 summer	det
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 summer	amod
7	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

There would be almost no seasons

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 seasons	advmod
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 seasons	det
6	seasons	season	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 be	nsubj

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The Earth would stop going around the Sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Earth	det
2	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 stop	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stop	aux
4	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stop	xcomp
6	around	around	ADP	_	8 Sun	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Sun	det
8	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 going	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	the Earth						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	go	gerund	the Earth not said here			the Sun			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme around sun=Initial_Location

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