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title: the long hand's on the 4, how many minutes past — Clocks, calendars and planning the day · tree and pragmatics
description: the long hand's on the 4, how many minutes past Test 12 · ★★ of lesson 263 «Clocks, calendars and planning the day» of the everyday 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 12 · ★★ · Clocks, calendars and planning the day

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the long hand's on the 4, how many minutes past

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗

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This is test 12 · ★★ of lesson 263 «Clocks, calendars and planning the day» of the everyday 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/everyday/263-clocks-calendars-and-planning/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:263-clocks-calendars-and-planning:t12:1
# text = the long hand's on the 4, how many minutes past
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
10	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
12	past	past	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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14 minutes past

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:263-clocks-calendars-and-planning:t12:o1:1
# text = 14 minutes past
1	14	14	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	compound	_	_
3	past	past	NOUN	NN	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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4 minutes past

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:263-clocks-calendars-and-planning:t12:o2:1
# text = 4 minutes past
1	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	past	past	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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40 minutes past

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:263-clocks-calendars-and-planning:t12:o3:1
# text = 40 minutes past
1	40	40	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	compound	_	_
3	past	past	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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20 minutes past

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:263-clocks-calendars-and-planning:t12:o4:1
# text = 20 minutes past
1	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	compound	_	_
3	past	past	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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