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title: Identify the months constituting summer in the Southern Hemisphere. — The UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the months constituting summer in the Southern Hemisphere. Exam question 3 of lesson 45 «The UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand» 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.
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# Exam question 3 · The UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand

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Identify the months constituting summer in the Southern Hemisphere.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, constitute · **To what, where:** Southern Hemisphere

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 45 «The UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand» of the world 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/world/45-uk-ireland-canada-australia-nz/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:45-uk-ireland-canada-australia-nz:e3:1
# text = Identify the months constituting summer in the Southern Hemisphere.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	constituting	constitute	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
5	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Southern	Southern	PROPN	NNP	_	9	compound	_	_
9	Hemisphere	hemisphere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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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 | **constitute** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  | the Southern Hemisphere | summer |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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December, January and February

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:45-uk-ireland-canada-australia-nz:e3:o1:1
# text = December, January and February
1	December	December	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	February	February	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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September, October and November

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:45-uk-ireland-canada-australia-nz:e3:o2:1
# text = September, October and November
1	September	September	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	October	October	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	November	November	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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June, July and August

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:45-uk-ireland-canada-australia-nz:e3:o3:1
# text = June, July and August
1	June	June	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	July	July	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	August	August	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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March, April and May

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:45-uk-ireland-canada-australia-nz:e3:o4:1
# text = March, April and May
1	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	April	April	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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