--- title: ★★★ It is deux heures moins le quart. Max's bus comes in twenty minu… — Telling the time · tree and pragmatics description: ★★★ It is deux heures moins le quart. Max's bus comes in twenty minutes. What time does it come? Test 12 · ★★ of lesson 12 «Telling the time» of the French course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/12-telling-the-time/t12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [French](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/) / [Telling the time](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/french/12-telling-the-time/) / t12 # Test 12 · ★★ · Telling the time ★★★ It is deux heures moins le quart. Max's bus comes in twenty minutes. What time does it come? **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** It, bus, time · **What happens:** be, come This is test 12 · ★★ 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/#t12). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* ★★★ It is deux heures moins le quart. ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:12-telling-the-time:t12:1 # text = ★★★ It is deux heures moins le quart. 1 ★ ★ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ★ ★ X FW Foreign=Yes 1 dep _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ★ ★ ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 4 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 deux deux NUM CD NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 heures heure NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 8 moins moins X FW Foreign=Yes 7 conj _ _ 9 le le DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 quart quart NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 11 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | It | | | | | ★ deux heures | tree rules | 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:* Max's bus comes in twenty minutes. ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:12-telling-the-time:t12:2 # text = Max's bus comes in twenty minutes. 1 Max Max PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 bus bus NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | present | Max's bus | | | | minute | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | *Sentence 3:* What time does it come? ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:12-telling-the-time:t12:3 # text = What time does it come? 1 What what DET WDT PronType=Int 2 det _ _ 2 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | present · do-support | what time | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1} deux heures cinq ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:12-telling-the-time:t12:o1:1 # text = deux heures cinq 1 deux deux NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 heures heure NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 compound _ _ 3 cinq cinq NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} une heure cinq ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:12-telling-the-time:t12:o2:1 # text = une heure cinq 1 une une X FW Foreign=Yes 3 dep _ _ 2 heure heure NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 cinq cinq NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3} deux heures et quart ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:12-telling-the-time:t12:o3:1 # text = deux heures et quart 1 deux deux 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} deux heures moins cinq ```conllu # sent_id = question:french:12-telling-the-time:t12:o4:1 # text = deux heures moins cinq 1 deux deux NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 heures heure NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 moins moins X FW Foreign=Yes 2 flat:foreign _ _ 4 cinq cinq NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` 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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