Exam question 2 · Clocks before clocks: sundials, water clocks, candles and…

Given that a ship's half-hour glass is turned eight times in succession, determine the aggregate period measured.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: give, turn, determine, measure · To what, where: hour glass, aggregate period

This is exam question 2 of lesson 122 «Clocks before clocks: sundials, water clocks, candles and hourglasses» 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.

The question

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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Forty minutes

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

Option 2

Two hours

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Four hours

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

Option 4

Eight hours

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

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