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Test 5 · ★★ · Time zones: why it's night in Sydney when it's day in London

Amir's dad, at 2 pm in London: "The New York lot are just starting their day." Why?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dad · What happens: start · To what, where: York lot

This is test 5 · ★★ 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: Amir's dad, at 2 pm in London: "The New York lot are just starting their day."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Amir	Amir	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dad	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Amir	case
3	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 starting	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 2	punct
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 2	case
6	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 dad	appos
7	pm	p.m.	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 2	nmod:unmarked
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 London	case
9	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 2	nmod
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 starting	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 starting	punct
12	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 lot	det
13	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 York	flat
14	York	York	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 lot	compound
15	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 starting	obl:unmarked
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 starting	aux
17	just	just	ADV	_	18 starting	advmod
18	starting	start	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 day	nmod:poss
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 starting	obl:unmarked
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 starting	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 starting	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start in a quote	present · progressive	Amir's dad	the York lot			day		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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: Why?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

New Yorkers start work at 2 pm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	New	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Yorkers	amod
2	Yorkers	yorker	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 start	nsubj
3	start	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 start	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 2	case
6	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 start	obl
7	pm	p.m.	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 2	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	present	New Yorkers	work		2 pm			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality

Option 2

Offices everywhere open at the same moment

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Offices	office	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 open	nsubj
2	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 open	advmod
3	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	7 moment	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 moment	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 moment	amod
7	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 open	obl

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

New York is 5 hours behind, so it's 9 am there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 York	flat
2	York	York	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 behind	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 behind	cop
4	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 hours	nummod
5	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 behind	obl:unmarked
6	behind	behind	ADV	_	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 9	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 9	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 9	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 9	cop
11	9	9	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 behind	obl
12	am	a.m.	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 9	nmod:unmarked
13	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 behind	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	New York			there	hour	behind property	tree rules
2	is a	present	it	9				am nmod:unmarked	tree rules

Option 4

New York is 5 hours ahead, so it's 7 pm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 York	flat
2	York	York	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 ahead	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 ahead	cop
4	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 hours	nummod
5	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ahead	obl:unmarked
6	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 7	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 7	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 7	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 7	cop
11	7	7	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 ahead	conj
12	pm	p.m.	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 7	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	New York				hour	ahead property	tree rules
2	is a	present	it	7				pm nmod:unmarked	tree rules

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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