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title: it's 9 in the morning in new york, what time in LA then — The United States and its states · tree and pragmatics
description: it's 9 in the morning in new york, what time in LA then Test 10 of lesson 44 «The United States and its states» 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 wrong.
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# Test 10 · The United States and its states

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it's 9 in the morning in new york, what time in LA then

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** it · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** 9

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This is test 10 of lesson 44 «The United States and its states» 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/44-the-usa-and-its-states/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:44-the-usa-and-its-states:t10:1
# text = it's 9 in the morning in new york, what time in LA then
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	york	york	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	12	det	_	_
12	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	LA	LA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | it | 9 and what time in LA |  |  | morning |  | 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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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12 noon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:44-the-usa-and-its-states:t10:o1:1
# text = 12 noon
1	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	noon	noon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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9 in the morning

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:44-the-usa-and-its-states:t10:o2:1
# text = 9 in the morning
1	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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3 in the morning

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:44-the-usa-and-its-states:t10:o3:1
# text = 3 in the morning
1	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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6 in the morning

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:44-the-usa-and-its-states:t10:o4:1
# text = 6 in the morning
1	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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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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