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title: Bristol is west of London. Does local noon come before or after Lond… — Time zones and the date line · tree and pragmatics
description: Bristol is west of London. Does local noon come before or after London's? Test 11 · ★★ 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 right.
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# Test 11 · ★★ · Time zones and the date line

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Bristol is west of London. Does local noon come before or after London's?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Bristol, local noon · **What happens:** be, come

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This is test 11 · ★★ 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/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Bristol is west of London.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:4-time-zones-and-the-date-line:t11:1
# text = Bristol is west of London.
1	Bristol	Bristol	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	west	west	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Bristol |  |  |  |  | of London; west *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Does local noon come before or after London's?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:4-time-zones-and-the-date-line:t11:2
# text = Does local noon come before or after London's?
1	Does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
2	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	noon	noon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	before	before	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	after	after	ADP	IN	_	5	conj	_	_
8	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present · do-support | local noon |  |  |  |  | 's London; before *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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After, about 10 minutes later

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:4-time-zones-and-the-date-line:t11:o1:1
# text = After, about 10 minutes later
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	about	about	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Before, about 10 minutes earlier

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:4-time-zones-and-the-date-line:t11:o2:1
# text = Before, about 10 minutes earlier
1	Before	before	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	about	about	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	earlier	early	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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One hour later

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:4-time-zones-and-the-date-line:t11:o3:1
# text = One hour later
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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At exactly the same moment

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:4-time-zones-and-the-date-line:t11:o4:1
# text = At exactly the same moment
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**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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