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title: A clock occupies five seconds in striking six, the intervals between… — Olympiad: time and calendar puzzles ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: A clock occupies five seconds in striking six, the intervals between strokes being equal. Determine the time it occupies in striking twelve. Exam question 2 of lesson 192 «Olympiad: time and calendar puzzles ★★★» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics o
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# Exam question 2 · Olympiad: time and calendar puzzles ★★★

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A clock occupies five seconds in striking six, the intervals between strokes being equal. Determine the time it occupies in striking twelve.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** clock, intervals, you · **What happens:** occupy, strike, be, determine · **To what, where:** intervals, six, time, twelve

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 192 «Olympiad: time and calendar puzzles ★★★» of the world course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/192-olympiad-time-and-calendar-puzzles/#e2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A clock occupies five seconds in striking six, the intervals between strokes being equal.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:192-olympiad-time-and-calendar-puzzles:e2:1
# text = A clock occupies five seconds in striking six, the intervals between strokes being equal.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	clock	clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	occupies	occupy	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	seconds	second	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	striking	strike	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
8	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	intervals	interval	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
12	between	between	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	strokes	stroke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
14	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	cop	_	_
15	equal	equal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **occupy** | present | a clock | the intervals |  |  | second |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **strike** | gerund | a clock *not said here* | six |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent six=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | gerund | the intervals *not said here* |  |  |  |  | between strokes; equal *property* | 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:* Determine the time it occupies in striking twelve.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:192-olympiad-time-and-calendar-puzzles:e2:2
# text = Determine the time it occupies in striking twelve.
1	Determine	determine	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	occupies	occupy	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	striking	strike	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
8	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **determine** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **occupy** | present | clock | the time *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus time=Experiencer |
| 3 | **strike** | gerund | clock *not said here* | twelve |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twelve=Patient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Fourteen seconds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:192-olympiad-time-and-calendar-puzzles:e2:o1:1
# text = Fourteen seconds
1	Fourteen	fourteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	seconds	second	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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Eleven seconds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:192-olympiad-time-and-calendar-puzzles:e2:o2:1
# text = Eleven seconds
1	Eleven	eleven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	seconds	second	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Twelve seconds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:192-olympiad-time-and-calendar-puzzles:e2:o3:1
# text = Twelve seconds
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	seconds	second	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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Ten seconds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:192-olympiad-time-and-calendar-puzzles:e2:o4:1
# text = Ten seconds
1	Ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	seconds	second	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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