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title: Identify which hand of an analogue clock, that is, a clock with hand… — Reading the clock: hours, minutes and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify which hand of an analogue clock, that is, a clock with hands, indicates the hour. Exam question 1 of lesson 101 «Reading the clock: hours, minutes and the two hands» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mov
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# Exam question 1 · Reading the clock: hours, minutes and the two hands

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Identify which hand of an analogue clock, that is, a clock with hands, indicates the hour.

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, that · **What happens:** identify, be, indicate · **To what, where:** hand, clock

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 101 «Reading the clock: hours, minutes and the two hands» of the world 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/world/101-reading-the-clock-hours-minutes-hands/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:101-reading-the-clock-hours-minutes-hands:e1:1
# text = Identify which hand of an analogue clock, that is, a clock with hands, indicates the hour.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
3	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	analogue	analogue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	clock	clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	clock	clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	indicates	indicate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | which hand of a analogue clock and a clock |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | that | a clock |  |  |  | with hands | tree rules |
| 3 | **indicate** | present |  |  |  |  | hour |  | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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The longer hand

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:101-reading-the-clock-hours-minutes-hands:e1:o1:1
# text = The longer hand
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	longer	long	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
3	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The thinnest hand

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:101-reading-the-clock-hours-minutes-hands:e1:o2:1
# text = The thinnest hand
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	thinnest	thin	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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The hand indicating the twelve

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:101-reading-the-clock-hours-minutes-hands:e1:o3:1
# text = The hand indicating the twelve
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	indicating	indicate	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **indicate** | gerund | the hand *not said here* | the twelve |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot twelve=Topic |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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The shorter hand

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:101-reading-the-clock-hours-minutes-hands:e1:o4:1
# text = The shorter hand
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	shorter	short	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
3	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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