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title: Hannah's London friend turns up at 6 in the evening for "dinner at h… — Quarter past, quarter to, and how peop… · tree and pragmatics
description: Hannah's London friend turns up at 6 in the evening for "dinner at half twelve". What went wrong? Test 5 · ★ 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 
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# Test 5 · ★ · Quarter past, quarter to, and how people really say the time

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Hannah's London friend turns up at 6 in the evening for "dinner at half twelve". What went wrong?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** London friend · **What happens:** turn up, go · **To what, where:** 6

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This is test 5 · ★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Hannah's London friend turns up at 6 in the evening for "dinner at half twelve".

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:102-quarter-past-quarter-to-saying-the-time:t5:1
# text = Hannah's London friend turns up at 6 in the evening for "dinner at half twelve".
1	Hannah	Hannah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	17	det:predet	_	_
17	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn up** | present | Hannah's London friend |  |  | 6 | evening | at half twelve | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at 6=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.

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*Sentence 2:* What went wrong?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:102-quarter-past-quarter-to-saying-the-time:t5:2
# text = What went wrong?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past |  |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Half twelve means six o'clock in London

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:102-quarter-past-quarter-to-saying-the-time:t5:o1:1
# text = Half twelve means six o'clock in London
1	Half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	2	det:predet	_	_
2	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nsubj	_	_
3	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | half twelve | six o'clock |  |  |  | in London | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot o'clock=Theme in london=Attribute |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The friend should have come at half past six

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:102-quarter-past-quarter-to-saying-the-time:t5:o2:1
# text = The friend should have come at half past six
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	9	det:predet	_	_
8	past	past	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | should · perfect | the friend |  |  | half past six |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at six=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Northerners eat dinner at midnight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:102-quarter-past-quarter-to-saying-the-time:t5:o3:1
# text = Northerners eat dinner at midnight
1	Northerners	northerner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | Northerners | dinner |  |  | midnight |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient |

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

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In the north "dinner" can be the midday meal, at 12:30

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:102-quarter-past-quarter-to-saying-the-time:t5:o4:1
# text = In the north "dinner" can be the midday meal, at 12:30
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	midday	midday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	12:30	12:30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	appos	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | can |  | the midday meal |  | the north and dinner |  |  | 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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