Test 12 · ★★ · Time zones: why it's night in Sydney when it's day in London
A World Cup final kicks off at 20:00 local time in a country 7 hours behind you. Your mate: "Easy, that's 1 pm for us." What's right?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Cup final, that · What happens: kick off, be · To what, where: 1 pm
This is test 12 · ★★ 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
Sentence 1: A World Cup final kicks off at 20:00 local time in a country 7 hours behind you.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 final | det |
| 2 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Cup | compound |
| 3 | Cup | Cup | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 final | compound |
| 4 | final | final | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kicks | nsubj |
| 5 | kicks | kick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 kicks | compound:prt |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 time | case |
| 8 | 20:00 | 20:00 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 time | nummod |
| 9 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 time | amod |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kicks | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 country | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 country | det |
| 13 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 time | nmod |
| 14 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 hours | nummod |
| 15 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 kicks | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 17 you | case |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 hours | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 kicks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kick off | present | a Cup final | hour; time | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=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.
Sentence 2: Your mate: "Easy, that's 1 pm for us."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mate | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Easy | nsubj |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 Easy | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Easy | punct |
| 5 | Easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 pm | punct |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 pm | nsubj |
| 8 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 pm | cop |
| 9 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 pm | nummod |
| 10 | pm | p.m. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Easy | conj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 us | case |
| 12 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 pm | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Easy | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Easy | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | that | 1 pm | for us | tree rules |
Sentence 3: What's right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 right | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | right property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Your mate's right, 1 pm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mate | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 right | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 mate | case |
| 4 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 1 | punct |
| 6 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 right | appos |
| 7 | pm | p.m. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 1 | nmod:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
It's 8 pm for you as well
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 pm | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 pm | cop |
| 3 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 pm | nummod |
| 4 | pm | p.m. | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 you | case |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 pm | nmod |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 4 pm | advmod |
| 8 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 as | fixed |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | 8 pm | for you | tree rules |
Option 3
It's 7 pm for you
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 | 3 7 | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 7 | cop |
| 3 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 4 | pm | p.m. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 7 | nmod:unmarked |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 you | case |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 7 | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | 7 | for you; pm nmod:unmarked | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
It's 3 am the next day for you
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 | 7 day | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 day | cop |
| 3 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 day | compound |
| 4 | am | a.m. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 3 | nmod:unmarked |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 day | det |
| 6 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 day | amod |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 you | case |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 day | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | the 3 next day | for you | tree rules |
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