Exam question 4 · Time zones and the date line

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the Republic of India's standard time.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, established facts · What happens: select, establish, concern · To what, where: response, Republic

This is exam question 4 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Select	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 facts	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 facts	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 facts	amod
8	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 consistent	obl
9	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 facts	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Republic	det
11	Republic	Republic	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	16 time	case
13	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 time	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 India	case
15	standard	standard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 time	amod
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Republic	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response	consistent property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here	the Republic of India's standard time		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus republic=Experiencer

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

It is identical to UTC

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 identical	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 identical	cop
3	identical	identical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 UTC	case
5	UTC	UTC	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 identical	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It		UTC			identical property	tree rules

Option 2

It is eight hours ahead of UTC

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ahead	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 ahead	cop
3	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 hours	nummod
4	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ahead	obl:unmarked
5	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 UTC	case
7	UTC	UTC	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 ahead	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It				hour	of UTC; ahead property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It is five hours and thirty minutes ahead of UTC

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hours	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hours	cop
3	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 hours	nummod
4	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 ahead	cc
6	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 minutes	nummod
7	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ahead	obl:unmarked
8	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	4 hours	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 UTC	case
10	UTC	UTC	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 ahead	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	five hours					tree rules

Option 4

It is five hours ahead of UTC

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ahead	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 ahead	cop
3	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 hours	nummod
4	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ahead	obl:unmarked
5	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 UTC	case
7	UTC	UTC	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 ahead	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It				hour	of UTC; ahead property	tree rules

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