Test 3 · ★ · The seasons and the tilt of the axis

Which is true about the seasons?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 seasons	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 seasons	det
6	seasons	season	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 true	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present					season	true property	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 · ✓ the right answer

They come from the tilt, not from the distance to the Sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 come	nsubj
2	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 tilt	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tilt	det
5	tilt	tilt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 come	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 distance	punct
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 distance	advmod
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 distance	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 distance	det
10	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tilt	appos
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 Sun	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Sun	det
13	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 distance	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	They			the tilt			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from tilt=Initial_Location

Option 2

They come from the distance to the Sun, not from the tilt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 come	nsubj
2	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 distance	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 distance	det
5	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 come	obl
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 Sun	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Sun	det
8	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 distance	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 tilt	punct
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 tilt	advmod
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 tilt	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tilt	det
13	tilt	tilt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	They			the tilt		from the distance to the Sun	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from distance=Initial_Location from tilt=Destination

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

They come from the Moon going around the Earth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 come	nsubj
2	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 Moon	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Moon	det
5	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 come	obl
6	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 come	advcl
7	around	around	ADP	_	9 Earth	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Earth	det
9	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 going	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	They			the Moon			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from moon=Initial_Location
2	go	gerund	They not said here			the Earth			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme around earth=Initial_Location

Option 4

They come from the Sun moving up and down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 come	nsubj
2	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 Sun	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Sun	det
5	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 come	obl
6	moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 come	advcl
7	up	up	ADV	_	6 moving	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 down	cc
9	down	down	ADV	_	7 up	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	They			the Sun			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from sun=Initial_Location
2	move up	gerund	They not said here						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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