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title: Today the high tide was at 9 in the morning. About when will it be t… — Seasons and tides · tree and pragmatics
description: Today the high tide was at 9 in the morning. About when will it be tomorrow? Test 7 · ★★ of lesson 40 «Seasons and tides» 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 7 · ★★ · Seasons and tides

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Today the high tide was at 9 in the morning. About when will it be tomorrow?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** high tide, tide · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** 9

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This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 40 «Seasons and tides» 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/40-seasons-and-tides/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Today the high tide was at 9 in the morning.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:40-seasons-and-tides:t7:1
# text = Today the high tide was at 9 in the morning.
1	Today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	tide	tide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the high tide |  |  | 9 | morning; today |  | 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.

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*Sentence 2:* About when will it be tomorrow?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:40-seasons-and-tides:t7:2
# text = About when will it be tomorrow?
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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About two hours earlier

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:40-seasons-and-tides:t7:o1:1
# text = About two hours earlier
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	earlier	early	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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At exactly the same time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:40-seasons-and-tides:t7:o2:1
# text = At exactly the same time
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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At midnight, when tides peak

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:40-seasons-and-tides:t7:o3:1
# text = At midnight, when tides peak
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
5	tides	tide	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	peak	peak	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **peak** | present | tides |  |  |  | midnight |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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About 50 minutes later

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:40-seasons-and-tides:t7:o4:1
# text = About 50 minutes later
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
```

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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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