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title: Clocks before clocks: sundials, water clocks, candles and… — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · World
description: The 15 test and exam questions of lesson 122 «Clocks before clocks: sundials, water clocks, candles and hourglasses» of the world course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Clocks before clocks: sundials, water clocks, candles and hourglasses

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The 15 questions of lesson 122 «Clocks before clocks: sundials, water clocks, candles and hourglasses» of the world course of Mova's primary school with their options, 95 sentences, every one parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/world/122-clocks-before-clocks/).

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- [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/122-clocks-before-clocks/t1/) — Jake: "Shadow clocks 3,500 years ago? That's older than my grandad, lol." How many 70-year lives fit into 3,500 years? — wrong ✗
- [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/122-clocks-before-clocks/t2/) — Ava, in a museum: "So it's a leaky bucket that tells the time? Bussin'." ("Bussin'" means really good.) What makes it work? — wrong ✗
- [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/122-clocks-before-clocks/t3/) — Mia: "A Greek court with a water clock, that's like debate club, innit." What's the same? — right ✓
- [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/122-clocks-before-clocks/t4/) — What would happen if a candle clock stood by an open window on a windy night? — right ✓
- [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/122-clocks-before-clocks/t5/) — Mei's gran in Singapore: "Incense clock is our old alarm, lah." ("Lah" just adds feeling at the end of a sentence.) How did it make a sound? — right ✓
- [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/122-clocks-before-clocks/t6/) — Theo's mum: "Hard-boiled, so two turns of the egg timer, yeah?" Each turn is 3 minutes. How long do the eggs boil? — wrong ✗
- [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/122-clocks-before-clocks/t7/) — A pirate cartoon shows the captain ringing "8 bells" because it's 8 o'clock. What did 8 bells really mean? — wrong ✗
- [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/122-clocks-before-clocks/t8/) — Jack: "Su Song's clock tower, 1088? That's sick." ("Sick" means brilliant.) How long before 2026 was that? — wrong ✗
- [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/122-clocks-before-clocks/t9/) — Ruby, from Liverpool: "A clock with one hand? How'd they know the minutes, la?" ("La" means lad or mate.) What's true? — wrong ✗
- [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/122-clocks-before-clocks/t10/) — Freya at Salisbury: "No face, no hands? Proper useless, that." Why was it still useful? — wrong ✗
- [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/122-clocks-before-clocks/t11/) — Your mate reckons hourglasses were invented after wristwatches. Put it right. — right ✓
- [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/122-clocks-before-clocks/e1/) — Identify the principal advantage of the water clock over the sundial. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/122-clocks-before-clocks/e2/) — Given that a ship's half-hour glass is turned eight times in succession, determine the aggregate period measured. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/122-clocks-before-clocks/e3/) — Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the origin of the word "clock". — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/122-clocks-before-clocks/e4/) — Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the clock constructed in 1088 by Su Song? — wrong ✗ · exam

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