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description: What would happen if you went to every "quarter of" meeting in the USA at quarter past instead? Test 10 · ★ 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 o
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# Test 10 · ★ · Quarter past, quarter to, and how people really say the time

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What would happen if you went to every "quarter of" meeting in the USA at quarter past instead?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** happen, go · **To what, where:** quarter

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 102 «Quarter past, quarter to, and how people really say the time» 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/102-quarter-past-quarter-to-saying-the-time/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:102-quarter-past-quarter-to-saying-the-time:t10:1
# text = What would happen if you went to every "quarter of" meeting in the USA at quarter past instead?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	quarter	quarter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
13	meeting	meeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	USA	USA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	quarter	quarter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	past	past	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
20	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | you |  |  | every quarter of meeting in the USA at quarter past |  | instead *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to quarter=Initial\_Location |

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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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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You would always be 30 minutes late

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:102-quarter-past-quarter-to-saying-the-time:t10:o1:1
# text = You would always be 30 minutes late
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
5	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | would | You | 30 minutes |  |  |  | always, late *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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You would always be exactly on time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:102-quarter-past-quarter-to-saying-the-time:t10:o2:1
# text = You would always be exactly on time
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	4	advmod	_	_
4	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | would | You |  |  |  | time | always, exactly *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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You would always be an hour late

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:102-quarter-past-quarter-to-saying-the-time:t10:o3:1
# text = You would always be an hour late
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | would | You | a hour |  |  |  | always, late *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
You would always be 15 minutes early

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:102-quarter-past-quarter-to-saying-the-time:t10:o4:1
# text = You would always be 15 minutes early
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | infinitive |  | 15 |  |  |  | always *property* | tree rules |

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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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