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title: A film commencing at onze heures moins le quart is of one and a half… — Olympiad: mixed brain-teasers ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: A film commencing at onze heures moins le quart is of one and a half hours' duration. State the hour of its conclusion. Exam question 3 of lesson 40 «Olympiad: mixed brain-teasers ★★★» of the French course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each 
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# Exam question 3 · Olympiad: mixed brain-teasers ★★★

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A film commencing at onze heures moins le quart is of one and a half hours' duration. State the hour of its conclusion.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** film, you · **What happens:** commence, be, state, conclude · **To what, where:** moins, onze heures

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 40 «Olympiad: mixed brain-teasers ★★★» of the French 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/french/40-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers/#e3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A film commencing at onze heures moins le quart is of one and a half hours' duration.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:40-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers:e3:1
# text = A film commencing at onze heures moins le quart is of one and a half hours' duration.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	commencing	commence	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	onze	onze	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	compound	_	_
6	heures	heure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	moins	moins	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	le	le	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	quart	quart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	16	compound	_	_
16	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	'	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	duration	duration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **commence** | gerund | a film *not said here* | moins |  | onze heures |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | a film |  |  |  |  | of one and a half hours's duration | tree rules |

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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:* State the hour of its conclusion.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:40-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers:e3:2
# text = State the hour of its conclusion.
1	State	state	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	conclusion	conclusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **state** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | hour |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **conclude** |  | film |  |  |  |  |  | nom conclusion «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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midi et demi

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:40-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers:e3:o1:1
# text = midi et demi
1	midi	midi	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	et	et	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
3	demi	demi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	flat:foreign	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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midi moins le quart

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:40-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers:e3:o2:1
# text = midi moins le quart
1	midi	midi	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	moins	moins	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	conj	_	_
3	le	le	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	quart	quart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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midi et quart

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:40-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers:e3:o3:1
# text = midi et quart
1	midi	midi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	et	et	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	quart	quart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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une heure et quart

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:40-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers:e3:o4:1
# text = une heure et quart
1	une	une	X	FW	_	2	flat:foreign	_	_
2	heure	heure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	et	et	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	quart	quart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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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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