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title: Big brother, fed up: "Shut up and read it. Long hand on the 6, short… — Reading the clock: hours, minutes and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Big brother, fed up: "Shut up and read it. Long hand on the 6, short hand between 1 and 2. What's the time?" Test 11 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 o
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# Test 11 · Reading the clock: hours, minutes and the two hands

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Big brother, fed up: "Shut up and read it. Long hand on the 6, short hand between 1 and 2. What's the time?"

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** feed up, shut up, read, be · **To what, where:** Big brother, it, time · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 11 of lesson 101 «Reading the clock: hours, minutes and the two hands» of the world 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/world/101-reading-the-clock-hours-minutes-hands/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Big brother, fed up: "Shut up and read it.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:101-reading-the-clock-hours-minutes-hands:t11:1
# text = Big brother, fed up: "Shut up and read it.
1	Big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	fed	feed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Shut	shut	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	read	read	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feed up** | participle · passive |  | Big brother |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **shut up** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **read** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | it |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |

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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:* Long hand on the 6, short hand between 1 and 2.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:101-reading-the-clock-hours-minutes-hands:t11:2
# text = Long hand on the 6, short hand between 1 and 2.
1	Long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
9	between	between	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

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*Sentence 3:* What's the time?"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:101-reading-the-clock-hours-minutes-hands:t11:3
# text = What's the time?"
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Six minutes past one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:101-reading-the-clock-hours-minutes-hands:t11:o1:1
# text = Six minutes past one
1	Six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	past	past	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Half past six

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:101-reading-the-clock-hours-minutes-hands:t11:o2:1
# text = Half past six
1	Half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	3	det:predet	_	_
2	past	past	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Half past two

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:101-reading-the-clock-hours-minutes-hands:t11:o3:1
# text = Half past two
1	Half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	3	det:predet	_	_
2	past	past	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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Half past one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:101-reading-the-clock-hours-minutes-hands:t11:o4:1
# text = Half past one
1	Half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	3	det:predet	_	_
2	past	past	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	one	one	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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