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Test 2 · ★★ · Time zones: why it's night in Sydney when it's day in London

Ellie: "Why don't we all use one time? Easier, innit." What would happen?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ellie, you · What happens: not use, innit, happen

This is test 2 · ★★ 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: Ellie: "Why don't we all use one time?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ellie	Ellie	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 use	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 use	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 use	punct
4	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 use	advmod
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 use	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 use	advmod
7	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 use	nsubj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 use	advmod
9	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 time	nummod
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 use	obl:unmarked
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 use	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not use in a quote	present · do-support	Ellie				time		vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: 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.

Sentence 2: Easier, innit."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Easier	easier	INTJ	_	3 innit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Easier	punct
3	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 innit	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 innit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	innit	imperative	you not said here						tree rules

Sentence 3: What would happen?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The Sun would rise at the same moment everywhere

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 rise	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 rise	aux
4	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 moment	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 moment	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 moment	amod
8	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rise	obl
9	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 rise	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise	would	the Sun				moment	everywhere property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Noon would be dark in half the world

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dark	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 dark	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 dark	cop
4	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 world	case
6	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	8 world	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 world	det
8	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dark	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	Noon			half world		dark property	tree rules

Option 3

Nothing at all would change for anyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 change	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 change	aux
5	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 anyone	case
7	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 change	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	Nothing					for anyone	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Everyone would wake at the same sunrise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 wake	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 wake	aux
3	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	7 sunrise	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sunrise	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sunrise	amod
7	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wake	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wake	would	Everyone				sunrise		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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