Test 7 · ★★ · Time zones and the date line

Why do countries close to the equator not need daylight saving time?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: countries, daylight · What happens: close, not need, save · To what, where: equator, daylight

This is test 7 · ★★ 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	4 close	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 close	aux
3	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 close	nsubj
4	close	close	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 equator	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 equator	det
7	equator	equator	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 close	obl
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 need	advmod
9	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 close	advcl
10	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 need	obj
11	saving	save	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 daylight	acl
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 saving	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 close	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	close	present · do-support	countries		the equator		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to equator=Recipient
2	not need	infinitive	countries not said here	daylight			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot daylight=Theme
3	save	gerund	daylight not said here			time	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

They have no clocks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 clocks	det
4	clocks	clock	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	They	no clocks					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clock=Patient

Option 2

It is always night there in the winter months

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	4 night	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 night	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 night	advmod
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 night	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 months	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 months	det
8	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 months	compound
9	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 night	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	night		there	month	always property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Day length hardly changes there through the year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Day	Day	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 length	compound
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 changes	nsubj
3	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	4 changes	advmod
4	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 changes	advmod
6	through	through	ADP	_	8 year	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 year	det
8	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 changes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	present	Day length			there	year	hardly property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

The Sun never sets at the equator

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	4 sets	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 sets	advmod
4	sets	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 equator	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 equator	det
7	equator	equator	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sets	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not set	present	the Sun			the equator			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at equator=Destination

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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