--- title: Whereas a class commencing at 4:30 continues for forty-five minutes,… — Timetables: buses, trains, TV and the… · tree and pragmatics description: Whereas a class commencing at 4:30 continues for forty-five minutes, state the time of its conclusion. Exam question 3 of lesson 104 «Timetables: buses, trains, TV and the school day» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each op --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/104-timetables-buses-trains-school-day/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/) / [Timetables: buses, trains, TV and the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/104-timetables-buses-trains-school-day/) / e3 # Exam question 3 · Timetables: buses, trains, TV and the school day Whereas a class commencing at 4:30 continues for forty-five minutes, state the time of its conclusion. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** class, state · **What happens:** commence, conclude · **To what, where:** 4:30 continues This is exam question 3 of lesson 104 «Timetables: buses, trains, TV and the school day» 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/104-timetables-buses-trains-school-day/#e3). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:104-timetables-buses-trains-school-day:e3:1 # text = Whereas a class commencing at 4:30 continues for forty-five minutes, state the time of its conclusion. 1 Whereas whereas SCONJ IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 class class NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 commencing commence VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 acl _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 4:30 4:30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 continues continue NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 9 forty forty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 state state NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 conclusion conclusion NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **commence** | gerund | a class and state the time of state's conclusion *not said here* | | | 4:30 continues | minute | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **conclude** | | state | | | | | | nom conclusion «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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} 5:45 ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:104-timetables-buses-trains-school-day:e3:o1:1 # text = 5:45 1 5:45 5:45 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} 5:00 ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:104-timetables-buses-trains-school-day:e3:o2:1 # text = 5:00 1 5:00 5:00 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} 5:15 ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:104-timetables-buses-trains-school-day:e3:o3:1 # text = 5:15 1 5:15 5:15 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} 5:30 ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:104-timetables-buses-trains-school-day:e3:o4:1 # text = 5:30 1 5:30 5:30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 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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