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title: What would happen if Britain kept summer time all winter long? — The date line and summer time: clocks… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if Britain kept summer time all winter long? Test 11 · ★★ of lesson 121 «The date line and summer time: clocks going forward and back» 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 was right.
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# Test 11 · ★★ · The date line and summer time: clocks going forward and back

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What would happen if Britain kept summer time all winter long?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Britain · **What happens:** happen, keep

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This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 121 «The date line and summer time: clocks going forward and back» 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/121-date-line-and-summer-time/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:121-date-line-and-summer-time:t11:1
# text = What would happen if Britain kept summer time all winter long?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Britain |  |  |  | time; winter | long *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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.

## The options {#options}

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

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Winter mornings would be darker, with sunrise later by the clock

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:121-date-line-and-summer-time:t11:o1:1
# text = Winter mornings would be darker, with sunrise later by the clock
1	Winter	Winter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	mornings	morning	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	darker	dark	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	clock	clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | Winter mornings |  |  |  | sunrise | by the clock; dark *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The Sun would rise an hour earlier by the clock

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:121-date-line-and-summer-time:t11:o2:1
# text = The Sun would rise an hour earlier by the clock
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	rise	rise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	earlier	early	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	clock	clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | would | the Sun |  |  |  | hour | by the clock; early *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by clock=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nothing at all, since clocks don't affect anything

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:121-date-line-and-summer-time:t11:o3:1
# text = Nothing at all, since clocks don't affect anything
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	clocks	clock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
7	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	affect	affect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
10	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **affect** | present · do-support | clocks | anything |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus anything=Experiencer |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Winter days would become an hour longer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:121-date-line-and-summer-time:t11:o4:1
# text = Winter days would become an hour longer
1	Winter	Winter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	xcomp	_	_
7	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | would | Winter days | a hour |  |  |  | long *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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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