--- title: Given that the Earth completes one rotation of 360 degrees in 24 hou… — Time zones: why it's night in Sydney w… · tree and pragmatics description: Given that the Earth completes one rotation of 360 degrees in 24 hours, determine the angle through which it rotates in one hour. Exam question 1 of lesson 120 «Time zones: why it's night in Sydney when it's day in London» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/120-time-zones/e1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/) / [Time zones: why it's night in Sydney w…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/120-time-zones/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · Time zones: why it's night in Sydney when it's day in London Given that the Earth completes one rotation of 360 degrees in 24 hours, determine the angle through which it rotates in one hour. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Earth, you, 360 degrees · **What happens:** give, complete, determine, rotate · **To what, where:** one rotation, angle This is exam question 1 of lesson 120 «Time zones: why it's night in Sydney when it's day in London» 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/120-time-zones/#e1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:120-time-zones:e1:1 # text = Given that the Earth completes one rotation of 360 degrees in 24 hours, determine the angle through which it rotates in one hour. 1 Given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 mark _ _ 2 that that SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 completes complete VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 6 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 rotation rotation NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 360 360 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 degrees degree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 24 24 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 determine determine VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 angle angle NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 through through ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 obl _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 rotates rotate VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 24 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | participle | | | | | | | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **complete** | present | the Earth | one rotation of 360 degrees in 24 hours | | | | | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rotation=Eventuality | | 3 | **determine** | imperative | you *not said here* | the angle | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent angle=Topic | | 4 | **rotate** | present | Earth | | | the angle | hour | | vn coil-9.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through which=Destination | | 5 | **rotate** | | 360 degrees in 24 hours | | | | | | nom rotation «act intransitive»: of=agent | 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 {#o1} Twenty-four degrees ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:120-time-zones:e1:o1:1 # text = Twenty-four degrees 1 Twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 degrees degree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Fifteen degrees ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:120-time-zones:e1:o2:1 # text = Fifteen degrees 1 Fifteen fifteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 degrees degree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Sixty degrees ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:120-time-zones:e1:o3:1 # text = Sixty degrees 1 Sixty sixty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 degrees degree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Thirty-six degrees ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:120-time-zones:e1:o4:1 # text = Thirty-six degrees 1 Thirty thirty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 1 conj _ _ 4 degrees degree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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