--- title: Noah, a Yorkshire lad: "Earth turns 360 degrees in 24 hours, so how… — Time zones: why it's night in Sydney w… · tree and pragmatics description: Noah, a Yorkshire lad: "Earth turns 360 degrees in 24 hours, so how wide's a time zone, like?" Test 11 · ★★ 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 pragmatics of the question and of each o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/120-time-zones/t11/) [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/) / t11 # Test 11 · ★★ · Time zones: why it's night in Sydney when it's day in London Noah, a Yorkshire lad: "Earth turns 360 degrees in 24 hours, so how wide's a time zone, like?" **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Earth · **What happens:** turn, be · **To what, where:** 360 degrees, time zone This is test 11 · ★★ 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. 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/#t11). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:120-time-zones:t11:1 # text = Noah, a Yorkshire lad: "Earth turns 360 degrees in 24 hours, so how wide's a time zone, like?" 1 Noah Noah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 Yorkshire Yorkshire PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 lad lad NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 10 360 360 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 degrees degree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 24 24 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 16 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 17 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 18 advmod _ _ 18 wide wide ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 zone zone NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 like like ADP IN _ 22 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ? ? PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn** *in a quote* | present | Earth | 360 degrees | | | hour | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent degree=Theme | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | | a time zone | | | | wide *property* | tree rules | 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} About 1 degree ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:120-time-zones:t11:o1:1 # text = About 1 degree 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 degree degree NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} About 15 degrees ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:120-time-zones:t11:o2:1 # text = About 15 degrees 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 15 15 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 degrees degree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} About 24 degrees ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:120-time-zones:t11:o3:1 # text = About 24 degrees 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 24 24 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 degrees degree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} About 36 degrees ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:120-time-zones:t11:o4:1 # text = About 36 degrees 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 36 36 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 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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