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description: Jake in Dallas says, "Five hours minus something? Y'all are making clocks hard." What is cinq heures moins dix? Test 5 · ★★ 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 wro
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# Test 5 · ★★ · Telling the time

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Jake in Dallas says, "Five hours minus something? Y'all are making clocks hard." What is cinq heures moins dix?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Jake, Y'all · **What happens:** say, make, be · **To what, where:** clocks, cinq heures · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 5 · ★★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Jake in Dallas says, "Five hours minus something?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:12-telling-the-time:t5:1
# text = Jake in Dallas says, "Five hours minus something?
1	Jake	Jake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Dallas	Dallas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
9	minus	minus	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Jake in Dallas |  |  |  | hour |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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:* Y'all are making clocks hard."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:12-telling-the-time:t5:2
# text = Y'all are making clocks hard."
1	Y'all	y'all	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	clocks	clock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present · progressive | Y'all | clocks |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset clock=Product |

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*Sentence 3:* What is cinq heures moins dix?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:12-telling-the-time:t5:3
# text = What is cinq heures moins dix?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	cinq	cinq	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	heures	heure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	moins	moins	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	compound	_	_
6	dix	dix	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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ten past five

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:12-telling-the-time:t5:o1:1
# text = ten past five
1	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	past	past	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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ten to four

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:12-telling-the-time:t5:o2:1
# text = ten to four
1	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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five past ten

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:12-telling-the-time:t5:o3:1
# text = five past ten
1	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	past	past	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	nmod	_	_
```

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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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ten to five

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:12-telling-the-time:t5:o4:1
# text = ten to five
1	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

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