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title: Why do countries close to the equator not need daylight saving time? — Time zones and the date line · tree and pragmatics
description: Why do countries close to the equator not need daylight saving time? Test 7 · ★★ 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 7 · ★★ · Time zones and the date line

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Why do countries close to the equator not need daylight saving time?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** countries, daylight · **What happens:** close, not need, save · **To what, where:** equator, daylight

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This is test 7 · ★★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:4-time-zones-and-the-date-line:t7:1
# text = Why do countries close to the equator not need daylight saving time?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	close	close	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	equator	equator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
10	daylight	daylight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	saving	save	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **close** | present · do-support | countries |  | the equator |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to equator=Recipient |
| 2 | **not** **need** | infinitive | countries *not said here* | daylight |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot daylight=Theme |
| 3 | **save** | gerund | daylight *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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They have no clocks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:4-time-zones-and-the-date-line:t7:o1:1
# text = They have no clocks
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	clocks	clock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | They | no clocks |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clock=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It is always night there in the winter months

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:4-time-zones-and-the-date-line:t7:o2:1
# text = It is always night there in the winter months
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	4	advmod	_	_
4	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | night |  | there | month | always *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Day length hardly changes there through the year

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:4-time-zones-and-the-date-line:t7:o3:1
# text = Day length hardly changes there through the year
1	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	changes	change	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
6	through	through	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | present | Day length |  |  | there | year | hardly *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The Sun never sets at the equator

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:4-time-zones-and-the-date-line:t7:o4:1
# text = The Sun never sets at the equator
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	sets	set	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	equator	equator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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

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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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