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title: A plane flies west across three time zones. How should the passenger… — Time zones and the calendar · tree and pragmatics
description: A plane flies west across three time zones. How should the passengers set their watches? Test 2 · ★★ of lesson 9 «Time zones and the calendar» 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 2 · ★★ · Time zones and the calendar

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A plane flies west across three time zones. How should the passengers set their watches?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** plane, passengers · **What happens:** fly, set · **To what, where:** three time zones, watches

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This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 9 «Time zones and the calendar» 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/9-time-zones-and-the-calendar/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A plane flies west across three time zones.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:9-time-zones-and-the-calendar:t2:1
# text = A plane flies west across three time zones.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	plane	plane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	flies	fly	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	west	west	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	across	across	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	zones	zone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | present | a plane |  |  | three time zones |  | west *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across zone=Trajectory |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* How should the passengers set their watches?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:9-time-zones-and-the-calendar:t2:2
# text = How should the passengers set their watches?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	passengers	passenger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	watches	watch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | should | the passengers | passengers's watches |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient watch=Result |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Forward by one day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:9-time-zones-and-the-calendar:t2:o1:1
# text = Forward by one day
1	Forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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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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Back by about three hours

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:9-time-zones-and-the-calendar:t2:o2:1
# text = Back by about three hours
1	Back	back	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	about	about	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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They need not change them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:9-time-zones-and-the-calendar:t2:o3:1
# text = They need not change them
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
4	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **need** | present | They |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **change** *not said to happen* | infinitive | They *not said here* | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Forward by about three hours

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:9-time-zones-and-the-calendar:t2:o4:1
# text = Forward by about three hours
1	Forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	about	about	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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

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