Test 11 · ★★ · Time zones: why it's night in Sydney when it's day in London

Noah, a Yorkshire lad: "Earth turns 360 degrees in 24 hours, so how wide's a time zone, like?"

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Earth · What happens: turn, be · To what, where: 360 degrees, time zone

This is test 11 · ★★ 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. 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	Noah	Noah	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 lad	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 lad	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lad	det
4	Yorkshire	Yorkshire	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 lad	compound
5	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 turns	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 turns	punct
8	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 turns	nsubj
9	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lad	acl:relcl
10	360	360	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 degrees	nummod
11	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 turns	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 hours	case
13	24	24	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 hours	nummod
14	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 turns	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 zone	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	22 zone	advmod
17	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 wide	advmod
18	wide	wide	ADV	_	22 zone	advmod
19	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 zone	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 zone	det
21	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 zone	compound
22	zone	zone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lad	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 like	punct
24	like	like	ADP	_	22 zone	nmod
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	22 zone	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 zone	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn in a quote	present	Earth	360 degrees			hour		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent degree=Theme
2	is a in a quote	present		a time zone				wide property	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 · ← Mova's choice

About 1 degree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 1	advmod
2	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 degree	nummod
3	degree	degree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

About 15 degrees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 15	advmod
2	15	15	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 degrees	nummod
3	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

About 24 degrees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 24	advmod
2	24	24	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 degrees	nummod
3	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

About 36 degrees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 36	advmod
2	36	36	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 degrees	nummod
3	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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