--- title: Whereas an employment shift commences at 22:00 and terminates at 06:… — Morning, afternoon and the 24-hour clock · tree and pragmatics description: Whereas an employment shift commences at 22:00 and terminates at 06:00, determine its aggregate duration. Exam question 3 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/103-morning-afternoon-24-hour-clock/e3/) [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/) / [Morning, afternoon and the 24-hour clock](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/103-morning-afternoon-24-hour-clock/) / e3 # Exam question 3 · Morning, afternoon and the 24-hour clock Whereas an employment shift commences at 22:00 and terminates at 06:00, determine its aggregate duration. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** employment shift, you · **What happens:** commence, terminate, determine · **To what, where:** 22:00, 06:00, aggregate duration This is exam question 3 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/#e3). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:103-morning-afternoon-24-hour-clock:e3:1 # text = Whereas an employment shift commences at 22:00 and terminates at 06:00, determine its aggregate duration. 1 Whereas whereas SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 employment employment NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 shift shift NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 commences commence VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 22:00 22:00 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 terminates terminate VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 10 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 06:00 06:00 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 determine determine VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 aggregate aggregate NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 duration duration NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **commence** | present | a employment shift | | | 22:00 | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **terminate** | present | a employment shift *not said here* | | | 06:00 | | | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **determine** | imperative | you *not said here* | shift's aggregate duration | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duration=Topic | 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} Six hours ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:103-morning-afternoon-24-hour-clock:e3:o1:1 # text = Six hours 1 Six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Four hours ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:103-morning-afternoon-24-hour-clock:e3:o2:1 # text = Four hours 1 Four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Sixteen hours ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:103-morning-afternoon-24-hour-clock:e3:o3:1 # text = Sixteen hours 1 Sixteen sixteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Eight hours ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:103-morning-afternoon-24-hour-clock:e3:o4:1 # text = Eight hours 1 Eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` 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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