--- title: A cinema performance commences at 6:40 with twenty minutes of advert… — How long until? Counting on across the… · tree and pragmatics description: A cinema performance commences at 6:40 with twenty minutes of advertisements preceding a film of two hours and five minutes. State the time of its conclusion. Exam question 3 of lesson 107 «How long until? Counting on across the hour» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/107-how-long-until-counting-on-across-the-hour/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/) / [How long until? Counting on across the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/107-how-long-until-counting-on-across-the-hour/) / e3 # Exam question 3 · How long until? Counting on across the hour A cinema performance commences at 6:40 with twenty minutes of advertisements preceding a film of two hours and five minutes. State the time of its conclusion. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** cinema performance, advertisements, State · **What happens:** commence, precede, film, conclude · **To what, where:** 6:40, film, two hours This is exam question 3 of lesson 107 «How long until? Counting on across the hour» 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/107-how-long-until-counting-on-across-the-hour/#e3). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* A cinema performance commences at 6:40 with twenty minutes of advertisements preceding a film of two hours and five minutes. ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:107-how-long-until-counting-on-across-the-hour:e3:1 # text = A cinema performance commences at 6:40 with twenty minutes of advertisements preceding a film of two hours and five minutes. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 cinema cinema NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 performance performance NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 commences commence VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 6:40 6:40 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 obl _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 advertisements advertisement NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 12 preceding precede VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 acl _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 film film NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 20 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **commence** | present | a cinema performance | | | 6:40 | minute | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **precede** | gerund | advertisements *not said here* | a film of two hours and five minutes | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme film=Co-Theme | | 3 | **film** | | | two hours and five minutes | | | | | nom film «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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. *Sentence 2:* State the time of its conclusion. ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:107-how-long-until-counting-on-across-the-hour:e3:2 # text = State the time of its conclusion. 1 State state NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 conclusion conclusion NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **conclude** | | State | | | | | | nom conclusion «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} 9:25 ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:107-how-long-until-counting-on-across-the-hour:e3:o1:1 # text = 9:25 1 9:25 9:25 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} 8:45 ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:107-how-long-until-counting-on-across-the-hour:e3:o2:1 # text = 8:45 1 8:45 8:45 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} 8:05 ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:107-how-long-until-counting-on-across-the-hour:e3:o3:1 # text = 8:05 1 8:05 8:05 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} 9:05 ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:107-how-long-until-counting-on-across-the-hour:e3:o4:1 # text = 9:05 1 9:05 9:05 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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