Test 5 · ★★ · Time zones and the calendar

Which is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 9 «Time zones and the calendar» 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	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						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 · ← Mova's choice

The month comes from the Sun and the year from the Moon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 month	det
2	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comes	nsubj
3	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 Sun	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Sun	det
6	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 comes	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 year	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 year	det
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Sun	conj
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 Moon	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Moon	det
12	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 year	nmod

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

Option 2

The day and the year both come from the Moon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 come	obl:unmarked
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 year	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 year	det
5	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 day	conj
6	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	7 come	nsubj
7	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 Moon	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Moon	det
10	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 come	obl

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

Option 3

The day comes from the Moon and the year from the Earth's turn on its own axis

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comes	nsubj
3	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 Moon	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Moon	det
6	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 comes	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 year	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 year	det
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Moon	conj
10	from	from	ADP	_	14 turn	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Earth	det
12	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 turn	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 Earth	case
14	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 year	nmod
15	on	on	ADP	_	18 axis	case
16	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 axis	nmod:poss
17	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 axis	amod
18	axis	axis	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	the day			the Moon and the year from the Earth's turn		on turn's own axis	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from moon=Initial_Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The day comes from the Earth's turn and the year from its trip around the Sun

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comes	nsubj
3	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	8 turn	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Earth	det
6	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 turn	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Earth	case
8	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comes	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 year	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 year	det
11	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 turn	conj
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 trip	case
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 trip	nmod:poss
14	trip	trip	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comes	obl
15	around	around	ADP	_	17 Sun	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Sun	det
17	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 trip	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	the day			the Earth's turn and the year		from Earth's trip around the Sun	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from turn=Initial_Location from trip=Destination
2	trip		Earth			the Sun			nom trip «act transitive»: poss=agent around=place

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