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description: Teacher: "Started at 9:20, pens down at 10:05, so you had an hour, stop whining." Was it an hour? Test 10 of lesson 108 «How long since? Counting back» 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 wrong.
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# Test 10 · How long since? Counting back

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Teacher: "Started at 9:20, pens down at 10:05, so you had an hour, stop whining." Was it an hour?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Teacher, you · **What happens:** start, pen down, have, stop, whine, be · **To what, where:** 9:20, 10:05, hour

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This is test 10 of lesson 108 «How long since? Counting back» 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/108-how-long-since-counting-back/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Teacher: "Started at 9:20, pens down at 10:05, so you had an hour, stop whining."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:108-how-long-since-counting-back:t10:1
# text = Teacher: "Started at 9:20, pens down at 10:05, so you had an hour, stop whining."
1	Teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Started	start	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	conj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	9:20	9:20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	pens	pen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	down	down	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	10:05	10:05	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
20	whining	whine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** *in a quote* | participle | Teacher *not said here* |  |  | 9:20 |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **pen down** *in a quote* | present | Teacher |  |  | 10:05 |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | past | you |  |  |  | hour |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **stop** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **whine** *in a quote* | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «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:* Was it an hour?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:108-how-long-since-counting-back:t10:2
# text = Was it an hour?
1	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Teacher | a hour |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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No, 35 minutes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:108-how-long-since-counting-back:t10:o1:1
# text = No, 35 minutes
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	35	35	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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No, 1 hour 25 minutes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:108-how-long-since-counting-back:t10:o2:1
# text = No, 1 hour 25 minutes
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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No, 45 minutes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:108-how-long-since-counting-back:t10:o3:1
# text = No, 45 minutes
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	45	45	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Yes, exactly an hour

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:108-how-long-since-counting-back:t10:o4:1
# text = Yes, exactly an hour
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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