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title: Noa: "Shabbat starts Friday at sunset, 7:45 pm, and ends after dark… — Other calendars: Chinese New Year, Isl… · tree and pragmatics
description: Noa: "Shabbat starts Friday at sunset, 7:45 pm, and ends after dark on Saturday." About how long is it? Test 6 of lesson 117 «Other calendars: Chinese New Year, Islamic and Jewish calendars, and Christmas in Ukraine» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmati
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# Test 6 · Other calendars: Chinese New Year, Islamic and Jewish cale…

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Noa: "Shabbat starts Friday at sunset, 7:45 pm, and ends after dark on Saturday." About how long is it?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Shabbat · **What happens:** start, end, be · **To what, where:** Noa, dark

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This is test 6 of lesson 117 «Other calendars: Chinese New Year, Islamic and Jewish calendars, and Christmas in Ukraine» 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/117-other-calendars/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Noa: "Shabbat starts Friday at sunset, 7:45 pm, and ends after dark on Saturday."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:117-other-calendars:t6:1
# text = Noa: "Shabbat starts Friday at sunset, 7:45 pm, and ends after dark on Saturday."
1	Noa	Noa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Shabbat	Shabbat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	starts	start	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
6	Friday	Friday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	sunset	sunset	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	7:45	7:45	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	appos	_	_
11	pm	p.m.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	ends	end	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	after	after	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	obl	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Saturday	Saturday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** *in a quote* | present | Shabbat | Noa *not said here* |  |  | friday; sunset |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noa=Eventuality |
| 2 | **end** *in a quote* | present | Shabbat *not said here* |  |  |  | after dark; saturday |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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:* About how long is it?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:117-other-calendars:t6:2
# text = About how long is it?
1	About	about	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
3	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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About 12 hours

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:117-other-calendars:t6:o1:1
# text = About 12 hours
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	hours	hour	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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About 48 hours

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:117-other-calendars:t6:o2:1
# text = About 48 hours
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	48	48	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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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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About 25 hours

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:117-other-calendars:t6:o3:1
# text = About 25 hours
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	hours	hour	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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About 7 hours

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:117-other-calendars:t6:o4:1
# text = About 7 hours
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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