Test 8 · Morning, afternoon and the 24-hour clock

Rhys's mate, Gen Z and salty (annoyed): "Bus said 07:52, I said eight-ish, it was gone." What lesson is there?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bus, I · What happens: say, be · To what, where: 07:52, eight ish · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 of lesson 103 «Morning, afternoon and the 24-hour clock» 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.

The question

Sentence 1: Rhys's mate, Gen Z and salty (annoyed): "Bus said 07:52, I said eight-ish, it was gone."

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.

Sentence 2: What lesson is there?

The options

Option 1

07:52 is the same as 8:00 on timetables

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Buses always leave late, so round up

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Round bus times earlier, never later

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

Option 4

Timetables are never exact to the minute

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