--- title: Determine the interval required for the second hand to complete one… — Reading the clock: hours, minutes and… · tree and pragmatics description: Determine the interval required for the second hand to complete one revolution of the dial. Exam question 4 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; Mo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/101-reading-the-clock-hours-minutes-hands/e4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/) / [Reading the clock: hours, minutes and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/101-reading-the-clock-hours-minutes-hands/) / e4 # Exam question 4 · Reading the clock: hours, minutes and the two hands Determine the interval required for the second hand to complete one revolution of the dial. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, dial · **What happens:** determine, require, complete, revolt · **To what, where:** interval, one revolution This is exam question 4 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/#e4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:101-reading-the-clock-hours-minutes-hands:e4:1 # text = Determine the interval required for the second hand to complete one revolution of the dial. 1 Determine determine VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 interval interval NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 required require VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 8 amod _ _ 8 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 complete complete VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 11 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 revolution revolution NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 dial dial NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **determine** | imperative | you *not said here* | the interval | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interval=Topic | | 2 | **require** | participle | | the interval *not said here* | | | | for the second hand | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **complete** | to-infinitive | | one revolution of the dial | | | | | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent revolution=Eventuality | | 4 | **revolt** | | the dial | | | | | | nom revolution «event intransitive»: of=agent | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Sixty minutes ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:101-reading-the-clock-hours-minutes-hands:e4:o1:1 # text = Sixty minutes 1 Sixty sixty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Twelve hours ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:101-reading-the-clock-hours-minutes-hands:e4:o2:1 # text = Twelve hours 1 Twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Sixty seconds ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:101-reading-the-clock-hours-minutes-hands:e4:o3:1 # text = Sixty seconds 1 Sixty sixty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 seconds second NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Twelve seconds ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:101-reading-the-clock-hours-minutes-hands:e4:o4:1 # text = Twelve seconds 1 Twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 seconds second NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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