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title: midday in melbourne, which way does my shadow point — Map reading puzzles · tree and pragmatics
description: midday in melbourne, which way does my shadow point Test 11 · ★★ 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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# Test 11 · ★★ · Map reading puzzles

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midday in melbourne, which way does my shadow point

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** midday, my · **What happens:** do, point · **To what, where:** shadow point

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This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 49 «Map reading puzzles» 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/49-map-puzzles/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:49-map-puzzles:t11:1
# text = midday in melbourne, which way does my shadow point
1	midday	midday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	melbourne	melbourne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	6	det	_	_
6	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | midday in melbourne and which way | my shadow point |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent point=Eventuality |
| 2 | **point** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom point «cognition transitive»: poss=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 {#o1}

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North

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:49-map-puzzles:t11: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 {#o2}

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West

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:49-map-puzzles:t11:o2:1
# 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 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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South

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:49-map-puzzles:t11:o3:1
# 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 4 {#o4}

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East

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:49-map-puzzles:t11: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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