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title: Given that a household observes army time, ascertain the hour denote… — Warm parents and strict parents · tree and pragmatics
description: Given that a household observes army time, ascertain the hour denoted by «twenty-one hundred». Exam question 2 of lesson 493 «Warm parents and strict parents» 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 wa
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# Exam question 2 · Warm parents and strict parents

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Given that a household observes army time, ascertain the hour denoted by «twenty-one hundred».

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** household, you · **What happens:** give, observe, ascertain, denote

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 493 «Warm parents and strict parents» 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/493-warm-parents-and-strict-parents/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:493-warm-parents-and-strict-parents:e2:1
# text = Given that a household observes army time, ascertain the hour denoted by «twenty-one hundred».
1	Given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	mark	_	_
2	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	household	household	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	observes	observe	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
6	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	denoted	denote	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	xcomp	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	compound	_	_
18	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **observe** | present | a household |  |  |  | time |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | hour |  | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **denote** | participle | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by one hundred | vn indicate-78 «NP V how S»: 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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Nine o'clock in the morning

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:493-warm-parents-and-strict-parents:e2:o1:1
# text = Nine o'clock in the morning
1	Nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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Nine o'clock in the evening

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:493-warm-parents-and-strict-parents:e2:o2:1
# text = Nine o'clock in the evening
1	Nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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One o'clock in the afternoon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:493-warm-parents-and-strict-parents:e2:o3:1
# text = One o'clock in the afternoon
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Twelve o'clock noon precisely

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:493-warm-parents-and-strict-parents:e2:o4:1
# text = Twelve o'clock noon precisely
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	noon	noon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	precisely	precisely	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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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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