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title: A cartoon cook says, "Ten past four plus fifty minutes is four sixty… — How long until? Counting on across the… · tree and pragmatics
description: A cartoon cook says, "Ten past four plus fifty minutes is four sixty." Put it right. Test 11 · ★ 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 each option; Mova's choice was wro
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# Test 11 · ★ · How long until? Counting on across the hour

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A cartoon cook says, "Ten past four plus fifty minutes is four sixty." Put it right.

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** cartoon cook, Ten, you · **What happens:** say, be, put · **To what, where:** four sixty, Ten · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 11 · ★ 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/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A cartoon cook says, "Ten past four plus fifty minutes is four sixty."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:107-how-long-until-counting-on-across-the-hour:t11:1
# text = A cartoon cook says, "Ten past four plus fifty minutes is four sixty."
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nsubj	_	_
8	past	past	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nmod	_	_
10	plus	plus	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	conj	_	_
12	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod:unmarked	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	compound	_	_
15	sixty	sixty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a cartoon cook |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Ten past four | four sixty |  |  |  |  | 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.

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*Sentence 2:* Put it right.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:107-how-long-until-counting-on-across-the-hour:t11:2
# text = Put it right.
1	Put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	right	right	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | imperative | you *not said here* | Ten |  |  |  | right *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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It is 4:60, a real time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:107-how-long-until-counting-on-across-the-hour:t11:o1:1
# text = It is 4:60, a real time
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	4:60	4:60	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | 4:60 |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It is only 4:50

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:107-how-long-until-counting-on-across-the-hour:t11:o2:1
# text = It is only 4:50
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	4:50	4:50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | 4:50 |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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It is 5:10 exactly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:107-how-long-until-counting-on-across-the-hour:t11:o3:1
# text = It is 5:10 exactly
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	5:10	5:10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | 5:10 |  |  |  | exactly *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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It is 5:00

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:107-how-long-until-counting-on-across-the-hour:t11:o4:1
# text = It is 5:00
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	5:00	5:00	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | 5:00 |  |  |  |  | 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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