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title: If the Moon's orbit were not tilted at all, what would happen? — Phases, eclipses and tides · tree and pragmatics
description: If the Moon's orbit were not tilted at all, what would happen? Test 5 · ★★ of lesson 7 «Phases, eclipses and tides» of the space 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 5 · ★★ · Phases, eclipses and tides

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If the Moon's orbit were not tilted at all, what would happen?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** not tilt, happen · **To what, where:** orbit, all

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This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 7 «Phases, eclipses and tides» of the space 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/space/7-phases-eclipses-and-tides/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:7-phases-eclipses-and-tides:t5:1
# text = If the Moon's orbit were not tilted at all, what would happen?
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	orbit	orbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	tilted	tilt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	14	nsubj	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **tilt** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · passive |  | the Moon's orbit |  | all |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme at all=Location |
| 2 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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There would be no phases

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:7-phases-eclipses-and-tides:t5:o1:1
# text = There would be no phases
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	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	phases	phase	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 phases |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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There would be no tides

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:7-phases-eclipses-and-tides:t5:o2:1
# text = There would be no tides
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	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	tides	tide	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 tides |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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There would be no eclipses at all, not ever again, anywhere on Earth

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:7-phases-eclipses-and-tides:t5:o3:1
# text = There would be no eclipses at all, not ever again, anywhere on Earth
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	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	eclipses	eclipse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
10	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	11	advmod	_	_
11	again	again	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	11	conj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | would | no eclipses |  |  | all; there | again |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Location |

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

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There would be a solar and a lunar eclipse every month

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:7-phases-eclipses-and-tides:t5:o4:1
# text = There would be a solar and a lunar eclipse every month
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	solar	solar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	lunar	lunar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	eclipse	eclipse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
10	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | month | solar *property* | tree rules |

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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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