--- title: A girl in Kyiv and a boy in Cape Town talk in December. Which is true? — The seasons and the tilt of the axis · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in Kyiv and a boy in Cape Town talk in December. Which is true? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 2 «The seasons and the tilt of the axis» 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 right. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/2-seasons-and-the-tilt/t2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/) / [The seasons and the tilt of the axis](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/2-seasons-and-the-tilt/) / t2 # Test 2 · ★ · The seasons and the tilt of the axis A girl in Kyiv and a boy in Cape Town talk in December. Which is true? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** talk, be This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 2 «The seasons and the tilt of the axis» 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/2-seasons-and-the-tilt/#t2). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* A girl in Kyiv and a boy in Cape Town talk in December. ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:2-seasons-and-the-tilt:t2:1 # text = A girl in Kyiv and a boy in Cape Town talk in December. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Kyiv Kyiv PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 Cape Cape PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 Town Town PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 talk talk NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 December December PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **talk** | | a boy in Cape Town | | | | december | | 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. *Sentence 2:* Which is true? ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:2-seasons-and-the-tilt:t2:2 # text = Which is true? 1 Which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | | | | | | true *property* | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} It is winter for her and summer for him ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:2-seasons-and-the-tilt:t2:o1:1 # text = It is winter for her and summer for him 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 for for ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nmod _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | It | winter and summer | | | | for her *= she*; for him *= he* | tree rules | ### Option 2 {#o2} Both have autumn ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:2-seasons-and-the-tilt:t2:o2:1 # text = Both have autumn 1 Both both DET DT PronType=Tot 2 nsubj _ _ 2 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 autumn autumn NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Both | | | | autumn | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ### Option 3 {#o3} Both have summer ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:2-seasons-and-the-tilt:t2:o3:1 # text = Both have summer 1 Both both DET DT PronType=Tot 2 nsubj _ _ 2 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Both | | | | summer | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ### Option 4 {#o4} Both have winter ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:2-seasons-and-the-tilt:t2:o4:1 # text = Both have winter 1 Both both DET DT PronType=Tot 2 nsubj _ _ 2 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Both | | | | winter | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | **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. 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