Test 4 · ★★ · Time zones and the date line

What is strange about sunrise in western China?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 4 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 strange	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 strange	cop
3	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 sunrise	case
5	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 strange	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 China	case
7	western	western	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 China	amod
8	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sunrise	nmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 strange	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present					sunrise	strange 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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The Sun rises in the west there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Sun	det
2	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 rises	nsubj
3	rises	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 west	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 west	det
6	west	west	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rises	obl
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 rises	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise	present	the Sun			the west; there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in west=Location

Option 2

There is no sunrise in winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 sunrise	det
4	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 winter	case
6	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	no sunrise			there	winter		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It comes before midnight

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	2 comes	nsubj
2	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	before	before	ADP	_	4 midnight	case
4	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 comes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	It				midnight		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It comes very late by the clock, because of the single zone

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	2 comes	nsubj
2	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 late	advmod
4	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 comes	advmod
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 clock	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 clock	det
7	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 comes	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 zone	punct
9	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	13 zone	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	9 because	fixed
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 zone	det
12	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 zone	amod
13	zone	zone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 comes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	It					by the clock; because the single zone; late property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by clock=Location

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