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title: Nan: "I've told you a million times, the bus goes at 8:40! It's 8:25… — Olympiad: time and calendar puzzles ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Nan: "I've told you a million times, the bus goes at 8:40! It's 8:25 — no, my watch is slow, it's 8:28." How long until the bus? Test 2 · ★★★ of lesson 192 «Olympiad: time and calendar puzzles ★★★» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question 
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# Test 2 · ★★★ · Olympiad: time and calendar puzzles ★★★

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Nan: "I've told you a million times, the bus goes at 8:40! It's 8:25 — no, my watch is slow, it's 8:28." How long until the bus?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** I, bus, watch · **What happens:** tell, go, be · **To what, where:** you, 8:40, 8:25, 8:28 · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 2 · ★★★ of lesson 192 «Olympiad: time and calendar puzzles ★★★» 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/192-olympiad-time-and-calendar-puzzles/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Nan: "I've told you a million times, the bus goes at 8:40!

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:192-olympiad-time-and-calendar-puzzles:t2:1
# text = Nan: "I've told you a million times, the bus goes at 8:40!
1	Nan	nan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	've	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	parataxis	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	iobj	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	8:40	8:40	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present · perfect | I |  | you |  | time |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | present | the bus |  |  | 8:40 |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at 8:40=Location |

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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:* It's 8:25 — no, my watch is slow, it's 8:28."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:192-olympiad-time-and-calendar-puzzles:t2:2
# text = It's 8:25 — no, my watch is slow, it's 8:28."
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	8:25	8:25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
4	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
5	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	10	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	watch	watch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	8:28	8:28	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | bus | 8:25 |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | my watch |  |  |  |  | slow *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | bus | 8:28 |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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*Sentence 3:* How long until the bus?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:192-olympiad-time-and-calendar-puzzles:t2:3
# text = How long until the bus?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	until	until	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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15 minutes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:192-olympiad-time-and-calendar-puzzles:t2:o1:1
# text = 15 minutes
1	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	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 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
12 minutes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:192-olympiad-time-and-calendar-puzzles:t2:o2:1
# text = 12 minutes
1	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
8 minutes and 40 seconds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:192-olympiad-time-and-calendar-puzzles:t2:o3:1
# text = 8 minutes and 40 seconds
1	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	40	40	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	seconds	second	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A million minutes, near enough

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:192-olympiad-time-and-calendar-puzzles:t2:o4:1
# text = A million minutes, near enough
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	near	near	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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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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