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title: Why can a phone call from Ukraine to Japan wake someone up? — Time zones and the calendar · tree and pragmatics
description: Why can a phone call from Ukraine to Japan wake someone up? Test 9 · ★★ 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 9 · ★★ · Time zones and the calendar

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Why can a phone call from Ukraine to Japan wake someone up?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** phone call · **What happens:** wake up · **To what, where:** someone

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This is test 9 · ★★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:9-time-zones-and-the-calendar:t9:1
# text = Why can a phone call from Ukraine to Japan wake someone up?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	wake	wake	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	10	obj	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wake up** | can | a phone call from Ukraine to Japan | someone |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent someone=Patient |

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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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Japan has longer days than Ukraine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:9-time-zones-and-the-calendar:t9:o1:1
# text = Japan has longer days than Ukraine
1	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	longer	long	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Japan |  |  |  | day |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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

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It may already be night there because Japan is far to the east

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:9-time-zones-and-the-calendar:t9:o2:1
# text = It may already be night there because Japan is far to the east
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	already	already	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
7	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	8	case	_	_
8	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | may | It | night |  | there |  | because Japan | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | to the east; far *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The Sun never sets in Japan

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:9-time-zones-and-the-calendar:t9:o3:1
# text = The Sun never sets in Japan
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	sets	set	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **set** | present | the Sun |  |  | Japan |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in japan=Destination |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Japan's clocks always run slower, so they are hours behind Ukraine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:9-time-zones-and-the-calendar:t9:o4:1
# text = Japan's clocks always run slower, so they are hours behind Ukraine
1	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	clocks	clock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
5	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	slower	slow	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
12	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | present | Japan's clocks |  |  |  |  | always, slow *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | clocks *= clock* | hours |  | Ukraine |  |  | tree rules |

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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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