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title: Identify the direction in which shadows point at noon in Australia. — Map reading puzzles · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the direction in which shadows point at noon in Australia. Exam question 3 of lesson 49 «Map reading puzzles» 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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# Exam question 3 · Map reading puzzles

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Identify the direction in which shadows point at noon in Australia.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, shadows · **What happens:** identify, point · **To what, where:** direction

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 49 «Map reading puzzles» 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/49-map-puzzles/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:49-map-puzzles:e3:1
# text = Identify the direction in which shadows point at noon in Australia.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	obl	_	_
6	shadows	shadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	point	point	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	noon	noon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the direction |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent direction=Theme |
| 2 | **point** | present | shadows |  |  |  | noon | in Australia; in the direction | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in which=Theme |

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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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North

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:49-map-puzzles:e3:o1:1
# text = North
1	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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South

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:49-map-puzzles:e3:o2:1
# text = South
1	South	south	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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West

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:49-map-puzzles:e3:o3:1
# text = West
1	West	west	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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East

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:49-map-puzzles:e3:o4:1
# text = East
1	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	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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