Test 2 · ★★ · Time zones and the calendar
A plane flies west across three time zones. How should the passengers set their watches?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: plane, passengers · What happens: fly, set · To what, where: three time zones, watches
This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 9 «Time zones and the calendar» 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 plane flies west across three time zones.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 plane | det |
| 2 | plane | plane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flies | nsubj |
| 3 | flies | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | west | west | ADV | _ | 3 flies | advmod |
| 5 | across | across | ADP | _ | 8 zones | case |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 zones | nummod |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 zones | compound |
| 8 | zones | zone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 flies | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flies | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | present | a plane | three time zones | west property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across zone=Trajectory |
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: How should the passengers set their watches?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 set | advmod |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 set | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 passengers | det |
| 4 | passengers | passenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 set | nsubj |
| 5 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 watches | nmod:poss |
| 7 | watches | watch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 set | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 set | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | should | the passengers | passengers's watches | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient watch=Result |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Forward by one day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Forward | forward | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 day | nummod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Forward | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Back by about three hours
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Back | back | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 hours | case |
| 3 | about | about | ADV | _ | 4 three | advmod |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 hours | nummod |
| 5 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Back | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
They need not change them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 need | nsubj |
| 2 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 need | advmod |
| 4 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 need | xcomp |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 change | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not need | present | They | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | change not said to happen | infinitive | They not said here | them = they | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
Option 4
Forward by about three hours
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Forward | forward | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 hours | case |
| 3 | about | about | ADV | _ | 4 three | advmod |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 hours | nummod |
| 5 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Forward | obl |
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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