Exam question 4 · Day and night

Whereas a given locality experiences midday, ascertain the approximate hour at the diametrically opposite point of the globe.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: give, ascertain, point · To what, where: opposite point, globe

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1 «Day and night» of the world course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Whereas	whereas	SCONJ	_	6 midday	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 midday	det
3	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 locality	amod
4	locality	locality	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 experiences	compound
5	experiences	experience	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 midday	compound
6	midday	midday	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ascertain	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 midday	punct
8	ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hour	det
10	approximate	approximate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hour	amod
11	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ascertain	obj
12	at	at	ADP	_	16 point	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 point	det
14	diametrically	diametrically	ADV	_	15 opposite	advmod
15	opposite	opposite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 point	amod
16	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ascertain	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 globe	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 globe	det
19	globe	globe	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 point	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	participle						vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	ascertain	imperative	you not said here		the opposite point of the globe	hour	whereas a experiences midday	vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	point			the globe				nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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 right answer

Approximately midnight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 midnight	advmod
2	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Likewise midday, at the same hour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Likewise	likewise	ADV	_	2 midday	advmod
2	midday	midday	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hour	punct
4	at	at	ADP	_	7 hour	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hour	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hour	amod
7	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 midday	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Late afternoon, before dusk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 afternoon	amod
2	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 dusk	punct
4	before	before	ADP	_	5 dusk	case
5	dusk	dusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 afternoon	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Early morning, about dawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 morning	amod
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 dawn	punct
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 dawn	case
5	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 morning	conj

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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