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title: Ethan starts screen time at 5:50 with 1 hour 20 minutes and says, "S… — How long until? Counting on across the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ethan starts screen time at 5:50 with 1 hour 20 minutes and says, "Sick, I can play till 7:50." What's the real end? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 107 «How long until? Counting on across the hour» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of ea
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# Test 10 · ★ · How long until? Counting on across the hour

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Ethan starts screen time at 5:50 with 1 hour 20 minutes and says, "Sick, I can play till 7:50." What's the real end?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Ethan, real end · **What happens:** start, say, play, be · **To what, where:** 5:50, Sick · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 107 «How long until? Counting on across the hour» 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/107-how-long-until-counting-on-across-the-hour/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Ethan starts screen time at 5:50 with 1 hour 20 minutes and says, "Sick, I can play till 7:50."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:107-how-long-until-counting-on-across-the-hour:t10:1
# text = Ethan starts screen time at 5:50 with 1 hour 20 minutes and says, "Sick, I can play till 7:50."
1	Ethan	Ethan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	starts	start	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	screen	screen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	5:50	5:50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Sick	Sick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
21	till	till	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	7:50	7:50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | present | Ethan |  |  | 5:50 | hour; minute; time |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Ethan *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **play** *in a quote* | can | Ethan | Sick |  |  | till 7:50 |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

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*Sentence 2:* What's the real end?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:107-how-long-until-counting-on-across-the-hour:t10:2
# text = What's the real end?
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	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	end	end	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 real end |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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6:10

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:107-how-long-until-counting-on-across-the-hour:t10:o1:1
# text = 6:10
1	6:10	6:10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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7:10

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:107-how-long-until-counting-on-across-the-hour:t10:o2:1
# text = 7:10
1	7:10	7:10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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7:50

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:107-how-long-until-counting-on-across-the-hour:t10:o3:1
# text = 7:50
1	7:50	7:50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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7:20

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:107-how-long-until-counting-on-across-the-hour:t10:o4:1
# text = 7:20
1	7:20	7:20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	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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