Test 6 · ★★ · Time zones: why it's night in Sydney when it's day in London
Zara: "Why's Babusia (grandma) always ringing so early for dinner?" She rings at 7 pm Kyiv time. What time is it in London?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Zara, Babusia, time · What happens: be, ring · To what, where: Babusia, 7, pm, London
This is test 6 · ★★ 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: Zara: "Why's Babusia (grandma) always ringing so early for dinner?"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zara | Zara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 ringing | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 Babusia | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Babusia | punct |
| 4 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 Babusia | advmod |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Babusia | cop |
| 6 | Babusia | Babusia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Zara | conj |
| 7 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 grandma | punct |
| 8 | grandma | grandma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Babusia | appos |
| 9 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 grandma | punct |
| 10 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 11 ringing | advmod |
| 11 | ringing | ring | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | root | root |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 early | advmod |
| 13 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 ringing | advmod |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 dinner | case |
| 15 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ringing | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 ringing | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 ringing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Zara and Babusia not said here | Babusia | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ring in a quote | gerund | Zara and Babusia | for dinner; always, early property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
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: She rings at 7 pm Kyiv time.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 rings | nsubj |
| 2 | rings | ring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 7 | case |
| 4 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 rings | obl |
| 5 | pm | p.m. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 7 | nmod:unmarked |
| 6 | Kyiv | Kyiv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 time | compound |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 7 | nmod:unmarked |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rings | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ring | present | Babusia | 7 pm Kyiv time | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at 7=Location |
Sentence 3: What time is it in London?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 is | expl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 London | case |
| 6 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 is | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | what time | pm = p.m. | London | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in london=Location |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
5 pm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | pm | p.m. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 5 | nmod:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
3 pm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | pm | p.m. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 3 | nmod:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
9 pm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | pm | p.m. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 9 | nmod:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
7 pm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | pm | p.m. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 7 | nmod:unmarked |
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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