--- title: A plant grows best when the Sun is high and the days long. In which… — The seasons and the tilt of the axis · tree and pragmatics description: A plant grows best when the Sun is high and the days long. In which season will it grow fastest in the north? 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In which season will it grow fastest in the north? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** plant, Sun · **What happens:** grow, be · **To what, where:** north This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* A plant grows best when the Sun is high and the days long. ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:2-seasons-and-the-tilt:t9:1 # text = A plant grows best when the Sun is high and the days long. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 best well ADV RBS Degree=Sup 3 advmod _ _ 5 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 advmod _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 advcl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl:unmarked _ _ 13 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | present | a plant | | | | | well *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | the Sun | | | | | high *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | the Sun *not said here* | | | | day | | 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:* In which season will it grow fastest in the north? ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:2-seasons-and-the-tilt:t9:2 # text = In which season will it grow fastest in the north? 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 3 det _ _ 3 season season NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 fastest fast ADV RBS Degree=Sup 6 advmod _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 north north NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | future | Sun | | | the north | season | fast *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in north=Location | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Late autumn ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:2-seasons-and-the-tilt:t9:o1:1 # text = Late autumn 1 Late late ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 autumn autumn NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} The season makes no difference ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:2-seasons-and-the-tilt:t9:o2:1 # text = The season makes no difference 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 season season NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 5 det _ _ 5 difference difference NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present | the season | no difference | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset difference=Product | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Summer ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:2-seasons-and-the-tilt:t9:o3:1 # text = Summer 1 Summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Winter ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:2-seasons-and-the-tilt:t9:o4:1 # text = Winter 1 Winter Winter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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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