Test 11 · ★★ · Time zones and the date line
Bristol is west of London. Does local noon come before or after London's?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Bristol, local noon · What happens: be, come
This is test 11 · ★★ 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: Bristol is west of London.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bristol | Bristol | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 London | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 London | cop |
| 3 | west | west | ADV | _ | 5 London | advmod |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 London | case |
| 5 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 London | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Bristol | of London; west 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: Does local noon come before or after London's?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | aux |
| 2 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 noon | amod |
| 3 | noon | noon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 come | nsubj |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | before | before | ADV | _ | 4 come | advmod |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 after | cc |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 before | conj |
| 8 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 come | obl |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 London | case |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present · do-support | local noon | 's London; before property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
After, about 10 minutes later
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | After | after | ADP | _ | 5 minutes | case |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 minutes | punct |
| 3 | about | about | ADV | _ | 4 10 | advmod |
| 4 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 minutes | nummod |
| 5 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 later | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Before, about 10 minutes earlier
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Before | before | ADP | _ | 5 minutes | case |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 minutes | punct |
| 3 | about | about | ADV | _ | 4 10 | advmod |
| 4 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 minutes | nummod |
| 5 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 earlier | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | earlier | early | ADV | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
One hour later
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hour | nummod |
| 2 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 later | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
At exactly the same moment
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 5 moment | case |
| 2 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 5 moment | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 moment | det |
| 4 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 moment | amod |
| 5 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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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