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title: ★★★ Chloe from Toronto reads onze heures moins le quart as 11:15 and… — Olympiad: mixed brain-teasers ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: ★★★ Chloe from Toronto reads onze heures moins le quart as 11:15 and says the film ends at 12:45. What's the right ending time? Test 5 · ★★★ 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 
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# Test 5 · ★★★ · Olympiad: mixed brain-teasers ★★★

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★★★ Chloe from Toronto reads onze heures moins le quart as 11:15 and says the film ends at 12:45. What's the right ending time?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ★, film · **What happens:** read, say, end, be · **To what, where:** heures moins, 12:45 · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 5 · ★★★ of lesson 40 «Olympiad: mixed brain-teasers ★★★» 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/40-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* ★★★ Chloe from Toronto reads onze heures moins le quart as 11:15 and says the film ends at 12:45.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:40-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers:t5:1
# text = ★★★ Chloe from Toronto reads onze heures moins le quart as 11:15 and says the film ends at 12:45.
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	★	★	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	Chloe	Chloe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Toronto	Toronto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
7	reads	read	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	onze	onze	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	compound	_	_
9	heures	heure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	compound	_	_
10	moins	moins	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	le	le	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	quart	quart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	11:15	11:15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	ends	end	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	12:45	12:45	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | present | ★ from Toronto | heures moins |  |  |  | as 11:15 | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent moins=Recipient quart=Topic |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | ★ from Toronto *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **end** | present | the film |  |  | 12:45 |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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:* What's the right ending time?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:40-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers:t5:2
# text = What's the right ending time?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	ending	ending	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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1:15

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:40-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers:t5:o1:1
# text = 1:15
1	1:15	1:15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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12:45

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:40-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers:t5:o2:1
# text = 12:45
1	12:45	12:45	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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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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12:15

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:40-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers:t5:o3:1
# text = 12:15
1	12:15	12:15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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11:45

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:40-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers:t5:o4:1
# text = 11:45
1	11:45	11:45	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	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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