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title: Day and night — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · World
description: The 17 test and exam questions of lesson 1 «Day and night» of the world course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Day and night

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The 17 questions of lesson 1 «Day and night» of the world course of Mova's primary school with their options, 89 sentences, every one parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/world/1-day-and-night/).

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- [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/1-day-and-night/t1/) — If the Earth stopped spinning, what would happen to day and night? — right ✓
- [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/1-day-and-night/t2/) — Anna in a dark room shines a torch at a slowly spinning ball with a sticker on it. What happens to the sticker? — right ✓
- [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/1-day-and-night/t3/) — Which is true? — wrong ✗
- [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/1-day-and-night/t4/) — Sam sees the Sun setting. Which way is he looking? — right ✓
- [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/1-day-and-night/t5/) — A friend in a far country is having breakfast while you go to bed. Why? — wrong ✗
- [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/1-day-and-night/t6/) — How many times does a place on the Earth pass from day into night in one week? — wrong ✗
- [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/1-day-and-night/t7/) — Why can you not see stars at noon? — right ✓
- [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/1-day-and-night/t8/) — Which picture of day and night is right? — wrong ✗
- [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/1-day-and-night/t9/) — If you stood on the line between the lit and dark halves of the Earth, what would you see? — wrong ✗
- [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/1-day-and-night/t10/) — why's the sky go dark at night anyway — wrong ✗
- [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/1-day-and-night/t11/) — if its lunch time here wots it like on the other side of the world — wrong ✗
- [t12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/1-day-and-night/t12/) — Leo says the Sun goes round the Earth every day and that's why it gets dark. true? — right ✓
- [t13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/1-day-and-night/t13/) — my sister reckons the stars only come out at night cos they switch on. right? — right ✓
- [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/1-day-and-night/e1/) — Identify the principal cause of the alternation of day and night upon the Earth. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/1-day-and-night/e2/) — It is given that the Earth completes one rotation upon its axis. State the approximate duration of the said rotation. — right ✓ · exam
- [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/1-day-and-night/e3/) — Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the apparent diurnal motion of the Sun? — right ✓ · exam
- [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/1-day-and-night/e4/) — Whereas a given locality experiences midday, ascertain the approximate hour at the diametrically opposite point of the globe. — right ✓ · exam

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