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title: A flight departs London at 11:00 London time and is of eight hours'… — Time zones: why it's night in Sydney w… · tree and pragmatics
description: A flight departs London at 11:00 London time and is of eight hours' duration; New York is five hours behind London. Ascertain the local time of arrival in New York. Exam question 2 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 scho
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# Exam question 2 · Time zones: why it's night in Sydney when it's day in London

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A flight departs London at 11:00 London time and is of eight hours' duration; New York is five hours behind London. Ascertain the local time of arrival in New York.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** flight, New York, you · **What happens:** depart, be, ascertain · **To what, where:** London, 11:00, five hours

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This is exam question 2 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/#e2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A flight departs London at 11:00 London time and is of eight hours' duration; New York is five hours behind London.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:120-time-zones:e2:1
# text = A flight departs London at 11:00 London time and is of eight hours' duration; New York is five hours behind London.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	departs	depart	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	11:00	11:00	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
7	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:unmarked	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	duration	duration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
18	York	York	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **depart** | present | a flight | London |  | 11:00  London time |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme london=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **is** | present | a flight *not said here* |  |  |  | hour | of eight hours's duration | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | New York | five hours |  | London |  |  | 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:* Ascertain the local time of arrival in New York.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:120-time-zones:e2:2
# text = Ascertain the local time of arrival in New York.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	arrival	arrival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
9	York	York	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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16:00

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:120-time-zones:e2:o1:1
# text = 16:00
1	16:00	16:00	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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03:00

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:120-time-zones:e2:o2:1
# text = 03:00
1	03:00	03:00	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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14:00

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:120-time-zones:e2:o3:1
# text = 14:00
1	14:00	14:00	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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19:00

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:120-time-zones:e2:o4:1
# text = 19:00
1	19:00	19:00	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	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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