--- title: Determine the number of minutes comprised in one quarter of an hour. — Quarter past, quarter to, and how peop… · tree and pragmatics description: Determine the number of minutes comprised in one quarter of an hour. Exam question 1 of lesson 102 «Quarter past, quarter to, and how people really say the time» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice wa --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/102-quarter-past-quarter-to-saying-the-time/e1/) [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/) / [Quarter past, quarter to, and how peop…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/102-quarter-past-quarter-to-saying-the-time/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · Quarter past, quarter to, and how people really say the time Determine the number of minutes comprised in one quarter of an hour. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** determine, comprise · **To what, where:** number, minutes, one quarter This is exam question 1 of lesson 102 «Quarter past, quarter to, and how people really say the time» 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/102-quarter-past-quarter-to-saying-the-time/#e1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:102-quarter-past-quarter-to-saying-the-time:e1:1 # text = Determine the number of minutes comprised in one quarter of an hour. 1 Determine determine VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 6 comprised comprise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 quarter quarter NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **determine** | imperative | you *not said here* | the number of minutes | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic | | 2 | **comprise** | participle | | minutes *not said here* | | one quarter of a hour | | | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | 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} Thirty ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:102-quarter-past-quarter-to-saying-the-time:e1:o1:1 # text = Thirty 1 Thirty thirty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Fifteen ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:102-quarter-past-quarter-to-saying-the-time:e1:o2:1 # text = Fifteen 1 Fifteen fifteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Four ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:102-quarter-past-quarter-to-saying-the-time:e1:o3:1 # text = Four 1 Four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Twenty-five ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:102-quarter-past-quarter-to-saying-the-time:e1:o4:1 # text = Twenty-five 1 Twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 1 flat _ _ ``` 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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