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title: Tilda and Wren: lights out is 9:00, and the giggling went on until 9… — Fighting, ignoring each other and shar… · tree and pragmatics
description: Tilda and Wren: lights out is 9:00, and the giggling went on until 9:45. Wren says it was «barely ten minutes». How long was it really? Test 10 of lesson 508 «Fighting, ignoring each other and sharing a room» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of
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# Test 10 · Fighting, ignoring each other and sharing a room

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Tilda and Wren: lights out is 9:00, and the giggling went on until 9:45. Wren says it was «barely ten minutes». How long was it really?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Tilda, giggling, Wren · **What happens:** be, go on, say · **To what, where:** 9:00, ten minutes, giggling · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 10 of lesson 508 «Fighting, ignoring each other and sharing a room» 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/508-fighting-ignoring-each-other-and-sharing-a-room/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Tilda and Wren: lights out is 9:00, and the giggling went on until 9:45.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:508-fighting-ignoring-each-other-and-sharing-a-room:t10:1
# text = Tilda and Wren: lights out is 9:00, and the giggling went on until 9:45.
1	Tilda	Tilda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	Wren	Wren	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
5	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
6	out	out	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	9:00	9:00	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	giggling	giggling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
14	on	on	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	until	until	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	9:45	9:45	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Tilda and Wren and lights | 9:00 |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go on** | past | the giggling |  |  |  | until 9:45 |  | vn function-105.2.1 «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:* Wren says it was «barely ten minutes».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:508-fighting-ignoring-each-other-and-sharing-a-room:t10:2
# text = Wren says it was «barely ten minutes».
1	Wren	Wren	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	barely	barely	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Wren |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | giggling | ten minutes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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*Sentence 3:* How long was it really?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:508-fighting-ignoring-each-other-and-sharing-a-room:t10:3
# text = How long was it really?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	really	really	ADV	RB	_	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | giggling |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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9 minutes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:508-fighting-ignoring-each-other-and-sharing-a-room:t10:o1:1
# text = 9 minutes
1	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|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 {#o2}

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15 minutes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:508-fighting-ignoring-each-other-and-sharing-a-room:t10:o2:1
# text = 15 minutes
1	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|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 3 {#o3}

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10 minutes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:508-fighting-ignoring-each-other-and-sharing-a-room:t10:o3:1
# text = 10 minutes
1	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|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 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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45 minutes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:508-fighting-ignoring-each-other-and-sharing-a-room:t10:o4:1
# text = 45 minutes
1	45	45	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|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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