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title: Ben's dad, bleary on the graveyard shift: "Ten at night till six, ho… — Morning, afternoon and the 24-hour clock · tree and pragmatics
description: Ben's dad, bleary on the graveyard shift: "Ten at night till six, how long's that, kid?" Test 6 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 right.
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# Test 6 · Morning, afternoon and the 24-hour clock

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Ben's dad, bleary on the graveyard shift: "Ten at night till six, how long's that, kid?"

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** kid

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This is test 6 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:103-morning-afternoon-24-hour-clock:t6:1
# text = Ben's dad, bleary on the graveyard shift: "Ten at night till six, how long's that, kid?"
1	Ben	Ben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	bleary	bleary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	graveyard	graveyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	shift	shift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	appos	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	till	till	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
19	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | that kid |  |  |  | long *property* | 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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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8 hours

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:103-morning-afternoon-24-hour-clock:t6:o1:1
# text = 8 hours
1	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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12 hours

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:103-morning-afternoon-24-hour-clock:t6:o2:1
# text = 12 hours
1	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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16 hours

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:103-morning-afternoon-24-hour-clock:t6:o3:1
# text = 16 hours
1	16	16	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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4 hours

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:103-morning-afternoon-24-hour-clock:t6:o4:1
# text = 4 hours
1	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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