Test 7 · ★ · The seasons and the tilt of the axis

Why does a slanting Sun make the ground cooler?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: slanting Sun · What happens: slant, make · To what, where: ground

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 make	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 make	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 Sun	det
4	slanting	slant	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 Sun	amod
5	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 make	nsubj
6	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ground	det
8	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	obj
9	cooler	cool	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 make	xcomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slant	gerund							vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make	present · do-support	a slanting Sun	the ground				cool property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ground=Product

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 light has to cool down on the long way here

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 light	det
2	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 cool	mark
5	cool	cool	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 has	xcomp
6	down	down	ADP	_	5 cool	compound:prt
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 way	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 way	det
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 way	amod
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cool	obl
11	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 cool	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the light						tree rules
2	cool down	to-infinitive	the light not said here			the long way; here			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The same light is shared by more ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 light	det
2	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 light	amod
3	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shared	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 shared	aux:pass
5	shared	share	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 ground	case
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 ground	amod
8	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	share	present · passive	more ground	the same light					tree rules

Option 3

The slanting light has no heat in it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 light	det
2	slanting	slant	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 light	amod
3	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 heat	det
6	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 has	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slant	gerund							vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	present	the slanting light	no heat		heat			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Patient

Option 4

The Sun is farther away at a slant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Sun	det
2	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 away	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 away	cop
4	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 away	advmod
5	away	away	ADV	_	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 slant	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 slant	det
8	slant	slant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 away	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the Sun			a slant		away, far property	tree rules

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