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title: What would happen to Australian seasons if the Earth had no tilt at… — Seasons, terms and holidays · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen to Australian seasons if the Earth had no tilt at all? Test 6 of lesson 113 «Seasons, terms and holidays» of the world 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 6 · Seasons, terms and holidays

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What would happen to Australian seasons if the Earth had no tilt at all?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Earth · **What happens:** happen, have · **To what, where:** tilt, all

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This is test 6 of lesson 113 «Seasons, terms and holidays» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/world/113-seasons-terms-and-holidays/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:113-seasons-terms-and-holidays:t6:1
# text = What would happen to Australian seasons if the Earth had no tilt at all?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	Australian	Australian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	seasons	season	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
12	tilt	tilt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  | season |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the Earth | no tilt |  | all |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tilt=Patient |

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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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Australia and England would swap seasons

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:113-seasons-terms-and-holidays:t6:o1:1
# text = Australia and England would swap seasons
1	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	swap	swap	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	seasons	season	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swap** | would | Australia and England |  |  |  | season |  | vn substitute-13.6.2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Australia would have summer all year

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:113-seasons-terms-and-holidays:t6:o2:1
# text = Australia would have summer all year
1	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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There would be almost no summer or winter anywhere

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:113-seasons-terms-and-holidays:t6:o3:1
# text = There would be almost no summer or winter anywhere
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	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | would | no summer or winter |  |  | there |  | anywhere *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The seasons would get twice as strong

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:113-seasons-terms-and-holidays:t6:o4:1
# text = The seasons would get twice as strong
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	seasons	season	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	advmod	_	_
6	as	as	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | would | the seasons |  |  |  |  | strong, twice *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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