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title: If Earth had no tilt at all, what would happen to the seasons? — Climate zones and why they are where t… · tree and pragmatics
description: If Earth had no tilt at all, what would happen to the seasons? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 21 «Climate zones and why they are where they are» of the geography course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 2 · ★ · Climate zones and why they are where they are

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If Earth had no tilt at all, what would happen to the seasons?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Earth, tilt · **What happens:** have, happen · **To what, where:** tilt, all

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 21 «Climate zones and why they are where they are» of the geography 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/geography/21-climate-zones-and-why-they-are-where-they-are/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:21-climate-zones-and-why-they-are-where-they-are:t2:1
# text = If Earth had no tilt at all, what would happen to the seasons?
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	tilt	tilt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	seasons	season	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Earth | no tilt |  | all |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tilt=Patient |
| 2 | **happen** | would | no tilt |  |  |  | season |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The seasons would be much stronger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:21-climate-zones-and-why-they-are-where-they-are:t2:o1:1
# text = The seasons would be much stronger
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	seasons	season	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
5	much	much	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | the seasons |  |  |  |  | strong *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Every year would have two summers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:21-climate-zones-and-why-they-are-where-they-are:t2:o2:1
# text = Every year would have two summers
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	summers	summer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Winter would last all year everywhere

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:21-climate-zones-and-why-they-are-where-they-are:t2:o3:1
# text = Winter would last all year everywhere
1	Winter	Winter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	last	last	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **last** | would | Winter |  |  |  | year | everywhere *property* | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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There would be almost no seasons

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:21-climate-zones-and-why-they-are-where-they-are:t2:o4:1
# text = There would be almost no seasons
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	seasons	season	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
```

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| # | 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 |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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