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title: Why would trade with Australia matter more to Samoa by 2011? — Time zones and the date line · tree and pragmatics
description: Why would trade with Australia matter more to Samoa by 2011? Test 6 · ★★ 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.
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# Test 6 · ★★ · Time zones and the date line

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Why would trade with Australia matter more to Samoa by 2011?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** trade, matter · **To what, where:** more

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This is test 6 · ★★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:4-time-zones-and-the-date-line:t6:1
# text = Why would trade with Australia matter more to Samoa by 2011?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	trade	trade	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
6	matter	matter	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
7	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	obj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Samoa	Samoa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	2011	2011	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trade** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **matter** | present |  | more |  |  |  | with Australia; by 2011 | 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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Being a day behind left only four shared working days a week

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:4-time-zones-and-the-date-line:t6:o1:1
# text = Being a day behind left only four shared working days a week
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	cop	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
8	shared	share	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
9	working	work	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	amod	_	_
10	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | gerund |  | a day |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **leave** | past |  |  |  |  | day; week | behind *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **share** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **work** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Australia owned Samoa

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:4-time-zones-and-the-date-line:t6:o2:1
# text = Australia owned Samoa
1	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	owned	own	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Samoa	Samoa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **own** | past | Australia | Samoa |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot samoa=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The United States closed its ports

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:4-time-zones-and-the-date-line:t6:o3:1
# text = The United States closed its ports
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	closed	close	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	ports	port	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **close** | past | the United States | its ports |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent port=Patient |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Samoa wanted New Year to come later

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:4-time-zones-and-the-date-line:t6:o4:1
# text = Samoa wanted New Year to come later
1	Samoa	Samoa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Year	Year	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
7	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | Samoa | New Year |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | New Year *not said here* |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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