Exam question 1 · Time zones and the date line

Ascertain the angular rotation of the Earth, expressed in degrees of longitude, accomplished in the course of one hour.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Earth · What happens: ascertain, express, accomplish, rotate · To what, where: angular rotation, degrees, course

This is exam question 1 of lesson 4 «Time zones and the date line» of the geography 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rotation	det
3	angular	angular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rotation	amod
4	rotation	rotation	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 Earth	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Earth	det
7	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 rotation	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 expressed	punct
9	expressed	express	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 rotation	acl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 degrees	case
11	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 expressed	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 longitude	case
13	longitude	longitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 degrees	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 accomplished	punct
15	accomplished	accomplish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 degrees	acl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 course	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 course	det
18	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 accomplished	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 hour	case
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 hour	nummod
21	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 course	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the angular rotation of the Earth		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rotation=Topic
2	express	participle		the angular rotation of the Earth not said here	degrees of longitude	vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	accomplish	participle		degrees of longitude not said here	the course of one hour	vn complete-55.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	rotate		the Earth			nom rotation «act intransitive»: of=agent

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Thirty degrees of longitude

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 degrees	nummod
2	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 longitude	case
4	longitude	longitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 degrees	nmod

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

Option 2

Twenty-four degrees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 four	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Twenty	punct
3	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 degrees	nummod
4	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

One degree of longitude

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 degree	nummod
2	degree	degree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 longitude	case
4	longitude	longitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 degree	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Fifteen degrees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 degrees	nummod
2	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	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. Elamur Cosmic License.

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