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title: Reading the clock: hours, minutes and the two hands — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · World
description: The 15 test and exam questions of lesson 101 «Reading the clock: hours, minutes and the two hands» of the world course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Reading the clock: hours, minutes and the two hands

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The 15 questions of lesson 101 «Reading the clock: hours, minutes and the two hands» of the world course of Mova's primary school with their options, 90 sentences, every one parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/world/101-reading-the-clock-hours-minutes-hands/).

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- [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/101-reading-the-clock-hours-minutes-hands/t1/) — Tyler goes, "long hand's on the 3, so it's 3 o'clock, no cap." The short hand is just past the 12. Is he right? — wrong ✗
- [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/101-reading-the-clock-hours-minutes-hands/t2/) — Mia's cousin from America hears "half four" and asks, "Half of four, so two o'clock?" What does it really mean? — wrong ✗
- [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/101-reading-the-clock-hours-minutes-hands/t3/) — Zara: "It's nearly ten innit, so call it 10:50." The long hand is on 10 and the short hand is almost on 10. What's the time? — right ✓
- [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/101-reading-the-clock-hours-minutes-hands/t4/) — Ruby: "Dad, the clock's broken, the skinny hand is zooming round!" What is really going on? — wrong ✗
- [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/101-reading-the-clock-hours-minutes-hands/t5/) — Jack moans, "Nan's clock is well sus, it's got letters, not numbers." What is true? — right ✓
- [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/101-reading-the-clock-hours-minutes-hands/t6/) — What would happen if a clock's two hands were exactly the same length? — right ✓
- [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/101-reading-the-clock-hours-minutes-hands/t7/) — In a cartoon, a teacher counts the numbers 1 to 8 to the long hand and says, "Eight minutes past!" Put the cartoon right. — wrong ✗
- [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/101-reading-the-clock-hours-minutes-hands/t8/) — A wee Scottish lad in class: "Big hand's on the 11, wee hand's near the 3. Home time at 3, aye?" How long till home time? — right ✓
- [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/101-reading-the-clock-hours-minutes-hands/t9/) — Finn reads 06:05 as "six oh five". His mum says, "Five past six, yeah." Who is right? — wrong ✗
- [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/101-reading-the-clock-hours-minutes-hands/t10/) — A phone game shows the long hand on 12 and the short hand on 3 and asks, "Is it 12:03?" — wrong ✗
- [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/101-reading-the-clock-hours-minutes-hands/t11/) — Big brother, fed up: "Shut up and read it. Long hand on the 6, short hand between 1 and 2. What's the time?" — wrong ✗
- [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/101-reading-the-clock-hours-minutes-hands/e1/) — Identify which hand of an analogue clock, that is, a clock with hands, indicates the hour. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/101-reading-the-clock-hours-minutes-hands/e2/) — It is given that the long hand points to the numeral eight. Ascertain the number of minutes elapsed since the hour. — right ✓ · exam
- [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/101-reading-the-clock-hours-minutes-hands/e3/) — Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning the expression "half four" as employed in Britain and Ireland. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/101-reading-the-clock-hours-minutes-hands/e4/) — Determine the interval required for the second hand to complete one revolution of the dial. — wrong ✗ · exam

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