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title: Ava thinks 13:45 is "quarter to two at night". What's the right fix? — Morning, afternoon and the 24-hour clock · tree and pragmatics
description: Ava thinks 13:45 is "quarter to two at night". What's the right fix? Test 5 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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# Test 5 · Morning, afternoon and the 24-hour clock

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Ava thinks 13:45 is "quarter to two at night". What's the right fix?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Ava, 13:45, right fix · **What happens:** think, be · **To what, where:** quarter · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 5 of lesson 103 «Morning, afternoon and the 24-hour clock» 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/103-morning-afternoon-24-hour-clock/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Ava thinks 13:45 is "quarter to two at night".

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:103-morning-afternoon-24-hour-clock:t5:1
# text = Ava thinks 13:45 is "quarter to two at night".
1	Ava	Ava	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	thinks	think	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	13:45	13:45	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	quarter	quarter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nmod	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | Ava |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | 13:45 | quarter |  |  | night | to two | tree rules |

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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's the right fix?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:103-morning-afternoon-24-hour-clock:t5:2
# text = What's the right fix?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	fix	fix	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the right fix |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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It is 11:45 in the late morning

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:103-morning-afternoon-24-hour-clock:t5:o1:1
# text = It is 11:45 in the late morning
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	11:45	11:45	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | 11:45 |  |  | morning |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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It is quarter to three at night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:103-morning-afternoon-24-hour-clock:t5:o2:1
# text = It is quarter to three at night
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	quarter	quarter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nmod	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | quarter |  |  | night | to three | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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It is 1:45 in the afternoon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:103-morning-afternoon-24-hour-clock:t5:o3:1
# text = It is 1:45 in the afternoon
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	1:45	1:45	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | 1:45 |  |  | afternoon |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It is quarter to two in the morning

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:103-morning-afternoon-24-hour-clock:t5:o4:1
# text = It is quarter to two in the morning
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	quarter	quarter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | quarter |  |  | morning | to two | 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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