--- title: Local noon in two places is 3 hours apart. How far apart are they in… — Time zones and the date line · tree and pragmatics description: Local noon in two places is 3 hours apart. How far apart are they in longitude? Test 1 · ★★ of lesson 4 «Time zones and the date line» of the geography course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/4-time-zones-and-the-date-line/t1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/) / [Time zones and the date line](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/4-time-zones-and-the-date-line/) / t1 # Test 1 · ★★ · Time zones and the date line Local noon in two places is 3 hours apart. How far apart are they in longitude? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Local noon, places · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** 3 hours, longitude This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 4 «Time zones and the date line» of the geography 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/geography/4-time-zones-and-the-date-line/#t1). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Local noon in two places is 3 hours apart. ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:4-time-zones-and-the-date-line:t1:1 # text = Local noon in two places is 3 hours apart. 1 Local local ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 noon noon NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 9 apart apart ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Local noon in two places | 3 hours | | | | apart *property* | tree rules | 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 far apart are they in longitude? ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:4-time-zones-and-the-date-line:t1:2 # text = How far apart are they in longitude? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 3 advmod _ _ 3 apart apart ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 longitude longitude NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | places *= place* | | | longitude | | apart *property* | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} 15 degrees ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:4-time-zones-and-the-date-line:t1:o1:1 # text = 15 degrees 1 15 15 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 degrees degree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} 45 degrees ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:4-time-zones-and-the-date-line:t1:o2:1 # text = 45 degrees 1 45 45 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 degrees degree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} 90 degrees ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:4-time-zones-and-the-date-line:t1:o3:1 # text = 90 degrees 1 90 90 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 degrees degree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} 3 degrees ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:4-time-zones-and-the-date-line:t1:o4:1 # text = 3 degrees 1 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 degrees degree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` 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. 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