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title: Identify the month in which the Earth is nearest to the Sun. — Olympiad: speed, space and seasons ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the month in which the Earth is nearest to the Sun. Exam question 2 of lesson 44 «Olympiad: speed, space and seasons ★★★» of the physics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Exam question 2 · Olympiad: speed, space and seasons ★★★

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Identify the month in which the Earth is nearest to the Sun.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, Earth · **What happens:** identify, be

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 44 «Olympiad: speed, space and seasons ★★★» of the physics course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/physics/44-olympiad-speed-space-and-seasons/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:44-olympiad-speed-space-and-seasons:e2:1
# text = Identify the month in which the Earth is nearest to the Sun.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	nearest	near	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	1	parataxis	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Sun.	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | month |  | vn empathize-88.2 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | present | the Earth |  |  |  | sunday | near *property* | tree rules |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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January

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:44-olympiad-speed-space-and-seasons:e2:o1:1
# text = January
1	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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December

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:44-olympiad-speed-space-and-seasons:e2:o2:1
# text = December
1	December	December	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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July

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:44-olympiad-speed-space-and-seasons:e2:o3:1
# text = July
1	July	July	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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June

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:44-olympiad-speed-space-and-seasons:e2:o4:1
# text = June
1	June	June	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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