--- title: ★★★ The film starts à quatorze heures quarante-cinq and lasts one ho… — Telling the time · tree and pragmatics description: ★★★ The film starts à quatorze heures quarante-cinq and lasts one hour and a half. When does it end, the clock-face way? 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When does it end, the clock-face way? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ★, half · **What happens:** start, last, end · **To what, where:** face way This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 12 «Telling the time» of the French 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/french/12-telling-the-time/#t11). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* ★★★ The film starts à quatorze heures quarante-cinq and lasts one hour and a half. ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:12-telling-the-time:t11:1 # text = ★★★ The film starts à quatorze heures quarante-cinq and lasts one hour and a half. 1 ★ ★ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ★ ★ X FW Foreign=Yes 1 dep _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ★ ★ ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 film film NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 6 starts start VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 à à ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 quatorze quatorze NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 heures heure NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 10 quarante quarante X FW Foreign=Yes 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 cinq cinq NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 lasts last VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 15 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl:unmarked _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **start** | present | ★ ★ the film | | | | | à quatorze heures | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **last** | present | ★ ★ the film *not said here* | | | | hour | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | 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. *Sentence 2:* When does it end, the clock-face way? ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:12-telling-the-time:t11:2 # text = When does it end, the clock-face way? 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 end end VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 7 clock clock NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **end** | present · do-support | half | the face way | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} quatre heures et demie ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:12-telling-the-time:t11:o1:1 # text = quatre heures et demie 1 quatre quatre NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 heures heure NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 et et CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 demie demie NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} trois heures et quart ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:12-telling-the-time:t11:o2:1 # text = trois heures et quart 1 trois trois X FW Foreign=Yes 2 compound _ _ 2 heures heure NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 et et CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 quart quart NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} quatre heures et quart ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:12-telling-the-time:t11:o3:1 # text = quatre heures et quart 1 quatre quatre NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 heures heure NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 et et CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 quart quart NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} quatre heures moins le quart ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:12-telling-the-time:t11:o4:1 # text = quatre heures moins le quart 1 quatre quatre NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 heures heure NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 moins moins X FW Foreign=Yes 2 conj _ _ 4 le le DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 quart quart NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 flat _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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