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title: Mia's cousin from America hears "half four" and asks, "Half of four,… — Reading the clock: hours, minutes and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mia's cousin from America hears "half four" and asks, "Half of four, so two o'clock?" What does it really mean? Test 2 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
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# Test 2 · Reading the clock: hours, minutes and the two hands

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Mia's cousin from America hears "half four" and asks, "Half of four, so two o'clock?" What does it really mean?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** cousin · **What happens:** hear, ask, mean · **To what, where:** four, Half

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This is test 2 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Mia's cousin from America hears "half four" and asks, "Half of four, so two o'clock?"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:101-reading-the-clock-hours-minutes-hands:t2:1
# text = Mia's cousin from America hears "half four" and asks, "Half of four, so two o'clock?"
1	Mia	Mia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	hears	hear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	9	det:predet	_	_
9	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	12	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | present | Mia's cousin from America | half four |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Mia's cousin from America *not said here* | Half of four |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent half=Recipient |

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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 does it really mean?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:101-reading-the-clock-hours-minutes-hands:t2:2
# text = What does it really mean?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	really	really	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present · do-support | cousin |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Two o'clock, 2:00

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:101-reading-the-clock-hours-minutes-hands:t2:o1:1
# text = Two o'clock, 2:00
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	2:00	2:00	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Quarter past four, 4:15

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:101-reading-the-clock-hours-minutes-hands:t2:o2:1
# text = Quarter past four, 4:15
1	Quarter	quarter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	past	past	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	4:15	4:15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Half past three, 3:30

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:101-reading-the-clock-hours-minutes-hands:t2:o3:1
# text = Half past three, 3:30
1	Half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	0	root	_	_
2	past	past	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	3:30	3:30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	_
```

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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 four, 4:30

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:101-reading-the-clock-hours-minutes-hands:t2:o4:1
# text = Half past four, 4:30
1	Half	half	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	3	advmod	_	_
2	past	past	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	4:30	4:30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	_
```

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

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