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title: Why does France have more time zones than Russia, which is much bigg… — Time zones and the date line · tree and pragmatics
description: Why does France have more time zones than Russia, which is much bigger? Test 8 · ★★ 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 8 · ★★ · Time zones and the date line

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Why does France have more time zones than Russia, which is much bigger?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** France, more time zones · **What happens:** have, be · **To what, where:** more time zones

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This is test 8 · ★★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:4-time-zones-and-the-date-line:t8:1
# text = Why does France have more time zones than Russia, which is much bigger?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	zones	zone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	much	much	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present · do-support | France | more time zones |  |  |  | than Russia | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent zone=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | more time zones |  |  |  |  | big *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.

## The options {#options}

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

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Its overseas lands are spread round the globe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:4-time-zones-and-the-date-line:t8:o1:1
# text = Its overseas lands are spread round the globe
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	overseas	overseas	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	spread	spread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	round	round	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	globe	globe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spread** | present · passive |  | Its overseas lands |  |  |  | round the globe | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Russia uses only one zone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:4-time-zones-and-the-date-line:t8:o2:1
# text = Russia uses only one zone
1	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	zone	zone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present | Russia | one zone |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent zone=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Paris uses several clocks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:4-time-zones-and-the-date-line:t8:o3:1
# text = Paris uses several clocks
1	Paris	Paris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
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 | **use** | present | Paris | several clocks |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clock=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
France is wider than Russia

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:4-time-zones-and-the-date-line:t8:o4:1
# text = France is wider than Russia
1	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	wider	wide	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
4	than	than	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | France |  |  |  |  | than Russia; wide *property* | tree rules |

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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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