Test 9 · ★★ · Time zones and the calendar

Why can a phone call from Ukraine to Japan wake someone up?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: phone call · What happens: wake up · To what, where: someone

This is test 9 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	10 wake	advmod
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 wake	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 call	det
4	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 call	compound
5	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wake	nsubj
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 Ukraine	case
7	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 call	nmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 Japan	case
9	Japan	Japan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 call	nmod
10	wake	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 wake	obj
12	up	up	ADP	_	10 wake	compound:prt
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 wake	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wake up	can	a phone call from Ukraine to Japan	someone					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent someone=Patient

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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Japan has longer days than Ukraine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Japan	Japan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	longer	long	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 days	amod
4	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 Ukraine	case
6	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 days	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Japan				day		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It may already be night there because Japan is far to the east

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 night	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 night	aux
3	already	already	ADV	_	5 night	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 night	cop
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 night	advmod
7	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	8 Japan	case
8	Japan	Japan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 night	nmod
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 far	cop
10	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 night	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 east	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 east	det
13	east	east	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 far	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	may	It	night		there		because Japan	tree rules
2	is	present						to the east; far property	tree rules

Option 3

The Sun never sets in Japan

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 sets	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 sets	advmod
4	sets	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Japan	case
6	Japan	Japan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sets	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not set	present	the Sun			Japan			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in japan=Destination

Option 4

Japan's clocks always run slower, so they are hours behind Ukraine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Japan	Japan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 clocks	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Japan	case
3	clocks	clock	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 run	nsubj
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 run	advmod
5	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	slower	slow	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 run	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hours	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 hours	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hours	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 hours	cop
11	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 run	obl
12	behind	behind	ADP	_	13 Ukraine	case
13	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 hours	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	present	Japan's clocks					always, slow property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present	clocks = clock	hours		Ukraine			tree rules

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