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title: A boy in Melbourne stands with his back to the midday Sun. Which way… — Map reading puzzles · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy in Melbourne stands with his back to the midday Sun. Which way is he facing? Test 4 · ★★ 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 right.
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# Test 4 · ★★ · Map reading puzzles

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A boy in Melbourne stands with his back to the midday Sun. Which way is he facing?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** stand, face · **To what, where:** way

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This is test 4 · ★★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:49-map-puzzles:t4:1
# text = A boy in Melbourne stands with his back to the midday Sun. Which way is he facing?
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Melbourne	Melbourne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	midday	midday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Sun.	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
13	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	14	det	_	_
14	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	facing	face	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | present | a boy in Melbourne |  |  |  | sunday | with boy's back | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **face** | present · progressive | boy | which way |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent way=Destination |

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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 {#o1}

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North

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:49-map-puzzles:t4: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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East

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:49-map-puzzles:t4:o2:1
# 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.

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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South

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:49-map-puzzles:t4: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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West

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:49-map-puzzles:t4:o4:1
# text = West
1	West	west	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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