Test 1 · ★★ · Time zones and the date line
Local noon in two places is 3 hours apart. How far apart are they in longitude?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Local noon, places · What happens: be · To what, where: 3 hours, longitude
This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 4 «Time zones and the date line» of the geography 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.
The question
Sentence 1: Local noon in two places is 3 hours apart.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 noon | amod |
| 2 | noon | noon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hours | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 places | case |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 places | nummod |
| 5 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 noon | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 hours | cop |
| 7 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 hours | nummod |
| 8 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 9 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 8 hours | advmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 hours | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Local noon in two places | 3 hours | apart property | 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: How far apart are they in longitude?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 far | advmod |
| 2 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 apart | advmod |
| 3 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 7 longitude | advmod |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 longitude | cop |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 longitude | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 longitude | case |
| 7 | longitude | longitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 longitude | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | places = place | longitude | apart property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
15 degrees
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 degrees | nummod |
| 2 | degrees | degree | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
45 degrees
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 45 | 45 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 degrees | nummod |
| 2 | degrees | degree | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
90 degrees
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 90 | 90 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 degrees | nummod |
| 2 | degrees | degree | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
3 degrees
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit 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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