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title: It is stated that a vehicle departed at a quarter past three and arr… — Retrieval: finding the answer in the t… · tree and pragmatics
description: It is stated that a vehicle departed at a quarter past three and arrived twenty minutes thereafter. Ascertain the time of arrival. Exam question 2 of lesson 17 «Retrieval: finding the answer in the text» of the English course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the q
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# Exam question 2 · Retrieval: finding the answer in the text

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It is stated that a vehicle departed at a quarter past three and arrived twenty minutes thereafter. Ascertain the time of arrival.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** vehicle, you · **What happens:** state, depart, arrive, ascertain · **To what, where:** It, quarter

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 17 «Retrieval: finding the answer in the text» of the English 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/english/17-retrieval-finding-the-answer-in-the-text/#e2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* It is stated that a vehicle departed at a quarter past three and arrived twenty minutes thereafter.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:17-retrieval-finding-the-answer-in-the-text:e2:1
# text = It is stated that a vehicle departed at a quarter past three and arrived twenty minutes thereafter.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	stated	state	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	vehicle	vehicle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	departed	depart	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	quarter	quarter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	past	past	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	thereafter	thereafter	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **state** *speech: other* | present · passive |  | It |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **depart** | participle | a vehicle |  |  | a quarter |  | past three | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme past three=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **arrive** | past |  |  |  |  |  | thereafter *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

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*Sentence 2:* Ascertain the time of arrival.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:17-retrieval-finding-the-answer-in-the-text:e2:2
# text = Ascertain the time of arrival.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	arrival	arrival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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A quarter past three

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:17-retrieval-finding-the-answer-in-the-text:e2:o1:1
# text = A quarter past three
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	quarter	quarter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	past	past	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Five minutes to four

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:17-retrieval-finding-the-answer-in-the-text:e2:o2:1
# text = Five minutes to four
1	Five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Twenty past three

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:17-retrieval-finding-the-answer-in-the-text:e2:o3:1
# text = Twenty past three
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	past	past	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Twenty-five minutes to four

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:17-retrieval-finding-the-answer-in-the-text:e2:o4:1
# text = Twenty-five minutes to four
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nmod	_	_
```

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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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