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title: Granny on the phone from Sydney says "good morning" as you go to bed… — Day and night, and the Moon's faces · tree and pragmatics
description: Granny on the phone from Sydney says "good morning" as you go to bed. How can that be? Test 3 of lesson 39 «Day and night, and the Moon's faces» of the physics 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 3 · Day and night, and the Moon's faces

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Granny on the phone from Sydney says "good morning" as you go to bed. How can that be?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Granny, you, that · **What happens:** say, go, be · **To what, where:** bed · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 3 of lesson 39 «Day and night, and the Moon's faces» of the physics 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/physics/39-day-and-night-and-the-moons-faces/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Granny on the phone from Sydney says "good morning" as you go to bed.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:39-day-and-night-and-the-moons-faces:t3:1
# text = Granny on the phone from Sydney says "good morning" as you go to bed.
1	Granny	granny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Sydney	Sydney	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Granny on the phone from Sydney |  |  |  | morning |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go** | present | you |  |  | bed |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial\_Location |

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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:* How can that be?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:39-day-and-night-and-the-moons-faces:t3:2
# text = How can that be?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **can** | can | that |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Australia has two suns

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:39-day-and-night-and-the-moons-faces:t3:o1:1
# text = Australia has two suns
1	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	suns	sun	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 | Australia | two suns |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sun=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The Sun goes to Sydney first every day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:39-day-and-night-and-the-moons-faces:t3:o2:1
# text = The Sun goes to Sydney first every day
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Sydney	Sydney	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	advmod	_	_
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | the Sun |  |  | Sydney | day | first *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to sydney=Initial\_Location |

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

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Sydney is on the side of the Earth now turning to face the Sun

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:39-day-and-night-and-the-moons-faces:t3:o3:1
# text = Sydney is on the side of the Earth now turning to face the Sun
1	Sydney	Sydney	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
10	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	acl:relcl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	face	face	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Sydney |  |  | the side |  | of the Earth | tree rules |
| 2 | **turn** | gerund | the side *not said here* |  |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **face** | to-infinitive | the side *not said here* |  | the Sun |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sun=Destination |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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She is confused about the time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:39-day-and-night-and-the-moons-faces:t3:o4:1
# text = She is confused about the time
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	confused	confused	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | She |  |  |  | time | confused *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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