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title: ★★★ Text: «Ana left home at 8:50. The walk to school took a quarter… — Retrieval: finding the answer in the t… · tree and pragmatics
description: ★★★ Text: «Ana left home at 8:50. The walk to school took a quarter of an hour, but she stopped for 5 minutes to tie her lace.» When did Ana get to school? Test 3 of lesson 17 «Retrieval: finding the answer in the text» of the English course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pra
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# Test 3 · Retrieval: finding the answer in the text

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★★★ Text: «Ana left home at 8:50. The walk to school took a quarter of an hour, but she stopped for 5 minutes to tie her lace.» When did Ana get to school?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Ana, walk · **What happens:** leave, take, stop, tie, get · **To what, where:** ★ ★ Text, 8:50, quarter, lace

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This is test 3 of lesson 17 «Retrieval: finding the answer in the text» of the English 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/english/17-retrieval-finding-the-answer-in-the-text/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* ★★★ Text: «Ana left home at 8:50.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:17-retrieval-finding-the-answer-in-the-text:t3:1
# text = ★★★ Text: «Ana left home at 8:50.
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	★	★	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	★	★	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Text	text	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Ana	Ana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	home	home	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	8:50	8:50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** *in a quote* | past | Ana | ★ ★ Text *not said here* |  | 8:50 |  | home *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent text=Theme at 8:50=Location |

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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:* The walk to school took a quarter of an hour, but she stopped for 5 minutes to tie her lace.»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:17-retrieval-finding-the-answer-in-the-text:t3:2
# text = The walk to school took a quarter of an hour, but she stopped for 5 minutes to tie her lace.»
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	walk	walk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	quarter	quarter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	tie	tie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	lace	lace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the walk to school | a quarter of a hour |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quarter=Theme |
| 2 | **stop** | past | walk |  |  |  | minute |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **tie** | to-infinitive | walk *not said here* | walk's lace |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lace=Patient |

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*Sentence 3:* When did Ana get to school?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:17-retrieval-finding-the-answer-in-the-text:t3:3
# text = When did Ana get to school?
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	Ana	Ana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past · do-support | Ana |  |  |  |  | to school *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to school=Result |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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9:10

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:17-retrieval-finding-the-answer-in-the-text:t3:o1:1
# text = 9:10
1	9:10	9:10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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9:05

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:17-retrieval-finding-the-answer-in-the-text:t3:o2:1
# text = 9:05
1	9:05	9:05	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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9:15

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:17-retrieval-finding-the-answer-in-the-text:t3:o3:1
# text = 9:15
1	9:15	9:15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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8:55

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:17-retrieval-finding-the-answer-in-the-text:t3:o4:1
# text = 8:55
1	8:55	8:55	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	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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