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title: Identify the number of minutes contained in three hours. — Time, routines and sleep · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the number of minutes contained in three hours. Exam question 3 of lesson 39 «Time, routines and sleep» 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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# Exam question 3 · Time, routines and sleep

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Identify the number of minutes contained in three hours.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, contain · **To what, where:** number, minutes

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 39 «Time, routines and sleep» of the everyday 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/everyday/39-time-and-routines/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:39-time-and-routines:e3:1
# text = Identify the number of minutes contained in three hours.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	contained	contain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the number of minutes |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent number=Theme |
| 2 | **contain** | participle |  | minutes *not said here* |  |  | hour |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |

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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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Sixty minutes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:39-time-and-routines:e3:o1:1
# text = Sixty minutes
1	Sixty	sixty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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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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One hundred and eighty minutes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:39-time-and-routines:e3:o2:1
# text = One hundred and eighty minutes
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	eighty	eighty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	_
5	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Three hundred minutes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:39-time-and-routines:e3:o3:1
# text = Three hundred minutes
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Thirty minutes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:39-time-and-routines:e3:o4:1
# text = Thirty minutes
1	Thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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