Exam question 1 · Time zones: why it's night in Sydney when it's day in London

Given that the Earth completes one rotation of 360 degrees in 24 hours, determine the angle through which it rotates in one hour.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Earth, you, 360 degrees · What happens: give, complete, determine, rotate · To what, where: one rotation, angle

This is exam question 1 of lesson 120 «Time zones: why it's night in Sydney when it's day in London» 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	Given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 completes	mark
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 completes	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Earth	det
4	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 completes	nsubj
5	completes	complete	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 determine	advcl
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 rotation	nummod
7	rotation	rotation	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 completes	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 degrees	case
9	360	360	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 degrees	nummod
10	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 rotation	nmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 hours	case
12	24	24	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 hours	nummod
13	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 degrees	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 determine	punct
15	determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 angle	det
17	angle	angle	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 determine	obj
18	through	through	ADP	_	19 which	case
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 rotates	obl
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 rotates	nsubj
21	rotates	rotate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 angle	acl:relcl
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 hour	case
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 hour	nummod
24	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 rotates	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	give	participle					vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	complete	present	the Earth	one rotation of 360 degrees in 24 hours			vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rotation=Eventuality
3	determine	imperative	you not said here	the angle			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent angle=Topic
4	rotate	present	Earth		the angle	hour	vn coil-9.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through which=Destination
5	rotate		360 degrees in 24 hours				nom rotation «act intransitive»: of=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

Twenty-four degrees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 four	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Twenty	punct
3	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 degrees	nummod
4	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Fifteen degrees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 degrees	nummod
2	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Sixty degrees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 degrees	nummod
2	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Thirty-six degrees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 degrees	nummod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 six	punct
3	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Thirty	conj
4	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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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