Test 6 · ★★ · Time zones and the date line

Why would trade with Australia matter more to Samoa by 2011?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: trade, matter · To what, where: more

This is test 6 · ★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 trade	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 trade	aux
3	trade	trade	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 Australia	case
5	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 matter	obl
6	matter	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 trade	parataxis
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 matter	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 Samoa	case
9	Samoa	Samoa	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 more	obl
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 2011	case
11	2011	2011	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 matter	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 trade	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trade	would							vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	matter	present		more				with Australia; by 2011	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 · ✓ the right answer

Being a day behind left only four shared working days a week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 day	cop
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 day	det
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 left	obl:unmarked
4	behind	behind	ADV	_	5 left	advmod
5	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 four	advmod
7	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 days	nummod
8	shared	share	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 days	amod
9	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 days	amod
10	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 left	obj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 week	det
12	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 left	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	gerund	a day			tree rules
2	leave	past		day; week	behind property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	share	participle				tree rules
4	work	gerund				vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Australia owned Samoa

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 owned	nsubj
2	owned	own	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Samoa	Samoa	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 owned	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	own	past	Australia	Samoa					vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot samoa=Theme

Option 3

The United States closed its ports

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 States	det
2	United	United	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 States	amod
3	States	State	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 closed	nsubj
4	closed	close	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 ports	nmod:poss
6	ports	port	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 closed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	close	past	the United States	its ports					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent port=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Samoa wanted New Year to come later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Samoa	Samoa	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Year	compound
4	Year	Year	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 come	mark
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
7	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	Samoa	New Year					tree rules
2	come not said to happen	to-infinitive	New Year not said here					late property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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