Test 5 · ★ · The seasons and the tilt of the axis
At noon your shadow is very long. Which season is it most likely to be?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: shadow, your, season · What happens: be, shadow
This is test 5 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: At noon your shadow is very long.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 noon | case |
| 2 | noon | noon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 long | obl |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 shadow | nmod:poss |
| 4 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 long | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 long | cop |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 long | advmod |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 long | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | your shadow | noon | long property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | shadow | your | nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=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.
Sentence 2: Which season is it most likely to be?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 season | det |
| 2 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 likely | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 likely | cop |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 likely | nsubj |
| 5 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 6 likely | advmod |
| 6 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 be | mark |
| 8 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 likely | xcomp |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 likely | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | which season | likely property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | to-infinitive | which season not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1
It cannot depend on the season
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 | 4 depend | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 depend | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 depend | advmod |
| 4 | depend | depend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 season | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 season | det |
| 7 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 depend | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not depend | can | It | season | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ← 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 3
Any season near the equator
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 season | det |
| 2 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | near | near | ADP | _ | 5 equator | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 equator | det |
| 5 | equator | equator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 season | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ 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.
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