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title: It is given that the Earth completes one rotation upon its axis. Sta… — Day and night · tree and pragmatics
description: It is given that the Earth completes one rotation upon its axis. State the approximate duration of the said rotation. Exam question 2 of lesson 1 «Day and night» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice wa
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# Exam question 2 · Day and night

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It is given that the Earth completes one rotation upon its axis. State the approximate duration of the said rotation.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Earth · **What happens:** give, complete, say · **To what, where:** It, one rotation · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 1 «Day and night» of the world 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/world/1-day-and-night/#e2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* It is given that the Earth completes one rotation upon its axis.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:1-day-and-night:e2:1
# text = It is given that the Earth completes one rotation upon its axis.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	completes	complete	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	rotation	rotation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	axis	axis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present · passive |  | It |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **complete** | present | the Earth | one rotation |  |  |  | upon Earth's axis | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rotation=Eventuality |

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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:* State the approximate duration of the said rotation.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:1-day-and-night:e2:2
# text = State the approximate duration of the said rotation.
1	State	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	approximate	approximate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	duration	duration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	rotation	rotation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Twenty-four hours

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:1-day-and-night:e2:o1:1
# text = Twenty-four hours
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	_
4	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Three hundred and sixty-five days

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:1-day-and-night:e2:o2:1
# text = Three hundred and sixty-five days
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	sixty	sixty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Seven days

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:1-day-and-night:e2:o3:1
# text = Seven days
1	Seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Twelve hours

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:1-day-and-night:e2:o4:1
# text = Twelve hours
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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