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title: Identify the time at which midnight is expressed upon the twenty-fou… — Morning, afternoon and the 24-hour clock · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the time at which midnight is expressed upon the twenty-four-hour clock. Exam question 2 of lesson 103 «Morning, afternoon and the 24-hour clock» 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 was wrong
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# Exam question 2 · Morning, afternoon and the 24-hour clock

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Identify the time at which midnight is expressed upon the twenty-four-hour clock.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, express

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 103 «Morning, afternoon and the 24-hour clock» 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/103-morning-afternoon-24-hour-clock/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:103-morning-afternoon-24-hour-clock:e2:1
# text = Identify the time at which midnight is expressed upon the twenty-four-hour clock.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	6	det	_	_
6	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	expressed	express	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
9	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
11	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	clock	clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn empathize-88.2 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **express** | present · passive |  |  |  |  | midnight | upon the hour clock | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP» |

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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 {#o1}

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01:00

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:103-morning-afternoon-24-hour-clock:e2:o1:1
# text = 01:00
1	01:00	01:00	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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00:00

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:103-morning-afternoon-24-hour-clock:e2:o2:1
# text = 00:00
1	00:00	00:00	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|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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23:00

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:103-morning-afternoon-24-hour-clock:e2:o3:1
# text = 23:00
1	23:00	23:00	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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12:00

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:103-morning-afternoon-24-hour-clock:e2:o4:1
# text = 12:00
1	12:00	12:00	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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