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Test 6 · ★★ · Time zones and the calendar

A town in the far east of a country sees sunrise before a town in the west. Why?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: town · What happens: see

This is test 6 · ★★ 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 town in the far east of a country sees sunrise before a town in the west.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 town	det
2	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sees	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 east	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 east	det
5	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 east	amod
6	east	east	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 town	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 country	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 country	det
9	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 east	nmod
10	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sees	obj
12	before	before	ADP	_	14 town	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 town	det
14	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sees	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 west	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 west	det
17	west	west	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 town	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 sees	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	a town in the far east of a country				before a town in the west; sunrise		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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

The eastern town is closer to the Sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 town	det
2	eastern	eastern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 town	amod
3	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 closer	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 closer	cop
5	closer	close	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 Sun	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Sun	det
8	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 closer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the eastern town					to the Sun; close property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The Earth turns towards the east, so the east meets the Sun first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Earth	det
2	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 turns	nsubj
3	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	towards	towards	ADP	_	6 east	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 east	det
6	east	east	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turns	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 meets	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 meets	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 east	det
10	east	east	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 meets	nsubj
11	meets	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 turns	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Sun	det
13	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 meets	obj
14	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 meets	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	the Earth			the east			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme towards east=Trajectory
2	meet	present	the east	the Sun				first property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sun=Co-Agent

Option 3

The western town has more clouds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 town	det
2	western	western	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 town	amod
3	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 clouds	amod
6	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the western town	more clouds					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloud=Patient

Option 4

The Sun is bigger in the east

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 bigger	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bigger	cop
4	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 east	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 east	det
7	east	east	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bigger	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the Sun			the east		big property	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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