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title: State the direction in which shadows point at sunrise. — Olympiad: speed, space and seasons ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: State the direction in which shadows point at sunrise. Exam question 3 of lesson 44 «Olympiad: speed, space and seasons ★★★» 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 right.
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# Exam question 3 · Olympiad: speed, space and seasons ★★★

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State the direction in which shadows point at sunrise.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** shadows · **What happens:** point

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 44 «Olympiad: speed, space and seasons ★★★» of the physics course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/44-olympiad-speed-space-and-seasons/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:44-olympiad-speed-space-and-seasons:e3:1
# text = State the direction in which shadows point at sunrise.
1	State	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	obl	_	_
6	shadows	shadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	point	point	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **point** | present | shadows |  |  |  | sunrise | in the direction | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in which=Theme |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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West

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:44-olympiad-speed-space-and-seasons:e3:o1:1
# text = West
1	West	west	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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North

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:44-olympiad-speed-space-and-seasons:e3:o2:1
# text = North
1	North	North	PROPN	NNP	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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South

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:44-olympiad-speed-space-and-seasons:e3:o3:1
# text = South
1	South	south	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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East

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:44-olympiad-speed-space-and-seasons:e3:o4:1
# text = East
1	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	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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