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Test 10 · ★★ · Time zones and the date line

In EU5 your army marches from Lisbon to Moscow. Why would no real general of 1500 have worried about time zones?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: army · What happens: march · To what, where: Moscow, EU5

This is test 10 · ★★ 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: In EU5 your army marches from Lisbon to Moscow.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	2 EU5	case
2	EU5	EU5	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 marches	obl
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 army	nmod:poss
4	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 marches	nsubj
5	marches	march	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 Lisbon	case
7	Lisbon	Lisbon	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 marches	obl
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 Moscow	case
9	Moscow	Moscow	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 marches	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 marches	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	march	present	your army		Moscow	EU5		from Lisbon	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to moscow=Result

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: Why would no real general of 1500 have worried about time zones?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 worried	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 worried	aux
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 general	det
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 general	amod
5	general	general	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 worried	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 1500	case
7	1500	1500	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 general	nmod
8	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 worried	aux
9	worried	worried	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	about	about	ADP	_	12 zones	case
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 zones	compound
12	zones	zone	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 worried	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 worried	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Armies carried UTC clocks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Armies	army	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 carried	nsubj
2	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	UTC	UTC	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 clocks	compound
4	clocks	clock	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 carried	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past	Armies	UTC clocks					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clock=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Every town used its own sun time and travel was slow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 town	det
2	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 used	nsubj
3	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 time	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 time	amod
6	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 time	compound
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 used	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 slow	cc
9	travel	travel	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 slow	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 slow	cop
11	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 used	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	every town				time		vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	travel					slow property	tree rules

Option 3

Time zones were secret

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 zones	compound
2	zones	zone	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 secret	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 secret	cop
4	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Time zones					secret property	tree rules

Option 4

Lisbon and Moscow had the same sun time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lisbon	Lisbon	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 Moscow	cc
3	Moscow	Moscow	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Lisbon	conj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 time	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 time	amod
7	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 time	compound
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Lisbon and Moscow				time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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