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title: footy starts 7pm in New York, mate in LA wants to watch live. What t… — Time zones and the date line · tree and pragmatics
description: footy starts 7pm in New York, mate in LA wants to watch live. What time for him? Test 3 · ★★ 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 3 · ★★ · Time zones and the date line

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footy starts 7pm in New York, mate in LA wants to watch live. What time for him?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** footy, mate · **What happens:** start, want, watch, live · **To what, where:** 7, New York

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This is test 3 · ★★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* footy starts 7pm in New York, mate in LA wants to watch live.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:4-time-zones-and-the-date-line:t3:1
# text = footy starts 7pm in New York, mate in LA wants to watch live.
1	footy	footy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	starts	start	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	pm	p.m.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod:unmarked	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
7	York	York	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	LA	LA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | present | footy | 7  pm |  | New York |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 7=Eventuality |
| 2 | **want** | present | mate in LA |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **watch** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | mate in LA *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **live** | infinitive | mate in LA *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:* What time for him?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:4-time-zones-and-the-date-line:t3:2
# text = What time for him?
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

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

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4pm

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:4-time-zones-and-the-date-line:t3:o1:1
# text = 4pm
1	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	pm	p.m.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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1pm

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:4-time-zones-and-the-date-line:t3:o2:1
# text = 1pm
1	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	pm	p.m.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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7pm

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:4-time-zones-and-the-date-line:t3:o3:1
# text = 7pm
1	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	pm	p.m.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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10pm

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:4-time-zones-and-the-date-line:t3:o4:1
# text = 10pm
1	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	pm	p.m.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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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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