Test 5 · ★★ · Time zones and the date line

If you sailed around the world eastwards, would you gain or lose a day on your log?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: sail, gain, lose · To what, where: world eastwards, log

This is test 5 · ★★ 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 sailed	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 sailed	nsubj
3	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	around	around	ADP	_	7 eastwards	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 eastwards	det
6	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eastwards	compound
7	eastwards	eastward	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sailed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 gain	punct
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 gain	aux
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 gain	nsubj
11	gain	gain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sailed	parataxis
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 lose	cc
13	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 gain	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 day	det
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lose	obl:unmarked
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 log	case
17	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 log	nmod:poss
18	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lose	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 sailed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	roles by
1	sail	past	you	the world eastwards		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent around eastward=Trajectory
2	gain	would	you			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	lose	infinitive	you not said here	your log	day	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

You would lose a week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 lose	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lose	aux
3	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 week	det
5	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lose	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	would	You				week		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Your log would be a day ahead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 log	nmod:poss
2	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 day	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 day	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 day	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	6 day	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	would	Your log	a day				ahead property	tree rules

Option 3

Nothing would change

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 change	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 change	aux
3	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	Nothing						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Your log would be a day behind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 log	nmod:poss
2	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 day	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 day	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 day	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	behind	behind	ADV	_	6 day	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	would	Your log	a day				behind property	tree rules

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