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title: What would happen if Hamza set his alarm 10 minutes later, at 7:25,… — Alarms, stopwatches and how long a sec… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if Hamza set his alarm 10 minutes later, at 7:25, and did the same jobs? Test 9 of lesson 105 «Alarms, stopwatches and how long a second is» 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 w
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# Test 9 · Alarms, stopwatches and how long a second is

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What would happen if Hamza set his alarm 10 minutes later, at 7:25, and did the same jobs?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Hamza · **What happens:** happen, set, do, alarm · **To what, where:** alarm, 7:25, same jobs

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This is test 9 of lesson 105 «Alarms, stopwatches and how long a second is» 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/105-alarms-stopwatches-how-long-a-second-is/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:105-alarms-stopwatches-how-long-a-second-is:t9:1
# text = What would happen if Hamza set his alarm 10 minutes later, at 7:25, and did the same jobs?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	Hamza	Hamza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	alarm	alarm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	7:25	7:25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	jobs	job	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **set** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Hamza | Hamza's alarm |  | 7:25 |  | late *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent alarm=Theme at 7:25=Destination |
| 3 | **do** | past | Hamza *not said here* | the same jobs |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality |
| 4 | **alarm** |  | Hamza |  |  |  |  |  | nom alarm «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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He would be ready at 7:55 and miss the 7:50 bus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:105-alarms-stopwatches-how-long-a-second-is:t9:o1:1
# text = He would be ready at 7:55 and miss the 7:50 bus
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	7:55	7:55	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	miss	miss	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	7:50	7:50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | He |  |  | 7:55 |  | ready *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **miss** | infinitive | He *not said here* | the 7:50 bus |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bus=Stimulus |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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He would be ready at exactly 7:50

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:105-alarms-stopwatches-how-long-a-second-is:t9:o2:1
# text = He would be ready at exactly 7:50
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	7:50	7:50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | He |  |  | 7:50 |  | ready *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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He would be ready at 7:45 with time to spare

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:105-alarms-stopwatches-how-long-a-second-is:t9:o3:1
# text = He would be ready at 7:45 with time to spare
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	7:45	7:45	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	spare	spare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | He |  |  | 7:45 | time | ready *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **spare** | to-infinitive | He *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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He would be ready at 7:35, very early

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:105-alarms-stopwatches-how-long-a-second-is:t9:o4:1
# text = He would be ready at 7:35, very early
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	7:35	7:35	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	very	very	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | He |  |  | 7:35 |  | early, ready *property* | 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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