How long until? Counting on across the hour
Tests: 4 of 11 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 4 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 107 of the world course of Mova's primary school, as Mova's small model took its tests: it had read this lesson and the ones before it and learned from their exercises. Each test shows the options in the order the student saw them, its choice, the right answer, the score of every option and why it chose. The lesson itself, sentence by sentence with trees and pragmatics: the lesson in the corpora.
Every question of this lesson and each of its options parsed by Mova, with trees and pragmatics: the lesson's questions in the corpora.
Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗
Darius gets home at 7:28 for a 7:45 kick-off: "Plenty of time, yeah nah, I'll grab a snack first." How long has he really got?
- 1. 45 minutes, till kick-off — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Only 7 minutes — no support
- 3. 17 minutes — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. 1 hour 17 minutes — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗
Grace's brother, starving: "Cake in at 4:40, 35 minutes, so it's ready at 4:75, innit?" Put him right.
- 1. 4:75 is right on a kitchen clock — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. 5:35, because you add the 40 and the 35 — no support
- 3. 5:05, because you round down — no support
- 4. 5:15, because there are only 60 minutes in an hour — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★ · right ✓
Ruby: "Update says 1 hr 25 min and it's 11:50. Done for lunch at 1, no cap?"
- 1. No, it finishes at 1:15, 15 minutes after lunch starts — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 2. Yes, it finishes at exactly 1:00 — score 5
- 3. No, it finishes at 2:15 — score 5
- 4. Yes, it finishes at 12:15 — score 5
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 5, tied with another option at 5 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 104, line 1: «A timetable is a promise written as a list of times: when the bus comes, when the train leaves and arrives, when the cartoon starts, when lunch ends. It lets t…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «end» (+4); the same doer «lunch» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗
Harry's friend says the bus from 8:52 to 9:17 takes "half an hour". What's true?
- 1. It takes exactly half an hour — ← Mova's choice · score 7
- 2. It takes 25 minutes, 5 short of half an hour — ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 3. It takes 17 minutes — score 7
- 4. It takes 35 minutes — score 7
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 7, tied with another option at 7 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 49, line 3: «The scale turns map centimetres into real distances: on a map where 1 centimetre is 2 kilometres, a path of 5 centimetres is 10 kilometres; walking about 4 kil…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «take» (+4); the same property (+3). The right option, 2, scored 7. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
Mae's dad in Boston: "Wicked early flight, 10:15, two hours at the airport, 45 to drive." When should they leave?
- 1. 8:15 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. 9:30 — no support
- 3. 7:30 — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. 7:15 — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗
What would happen if Zane's mum forgot the 20 minutes of adverts before his 6:40 film of 2 hours 5 minutes?
- 1. She would come at 9:05, right on time — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. She would come at 8:45 and wait 20 minutes — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. She would come at 9:25, very late — no support
- 4. She would come at 7:00, at the start — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · right ✓
Kiara's mum: "Hang the washing out when it's done, yeah?" It started at 9:35 and says 1:40. Kiara thinks 1:40 means 1:40 in the afternoon. Who's right?
- 1. 1:40 is how long it takes, so it ends at 11:15 — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 2. 1:40 means 140 minutes, so 11:55 — score 3
- 3. 1:40 means 14 minutes, so 9:49 — score 3
- 4. 1:40 is the time it ends, in the afternoon — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 107, line 15: «A washing machine screen showing 1:40 means 1 hour 40 minutes, so a wash started at 9:35 ends at 11:15.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «end» (+3); the same place «11:15» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · right ✓
A Kiwi (New Zealand) aunt texts Finn: "Land quarter to three, then hour and a half drive, sweet as." When should he put his shoes on?
- 1. Just before 4:15 — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Just before 2:45, when she lands — no support
- 3. Not until about 5:45 — no support
- 4. Around half past three — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · right ✓
Jayden asks "how long till we get there?" for the tenth time at 2:35; they arrive at 3:10. Dad snaps, "Ask again and we're turning round!" How long is left?
- 1. 35 minutes — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. 45 minutes — no support
- 3. 75 minutes — no support
- 4. 25 minutes — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗
Ethan starts screen time at 5:50 with 1 hour 20 minutes and says, "Sick, I can play till 7:50." What's the real end?
- 1. 6:10 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. 7:10 — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. 7:50 — no support
- 4. 7:20 — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗
A cartoon cook says, "Ten past four plus fifty minutes is four sixty." Put it right.
- 1. It is 4:60, a real time — no support
- 2. It is only 4:50 — no support
- 3. It is 5:10 exactly — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 4. It is 5:00 — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 102, line 10: «Americans often say "after" where British people say "past": ten after five and ten past five are both 5:10.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «ten» (+1); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
It is given that a journey commences at 2:35 and concludes at 3:10. Determine the duration of the said journey.
- 1. Twenty-five minutes precisely — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Some forty-five minutes — no support
- 3. Seventy-five minutes — no support
- 4. Thirty-five minutes — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
Whereas a flight departs at 10:15, passengers are required at the airport two hours prior, and the drive occupies forty-five minutes, ascertain the latest time of departure from home.
- 1. 8:30 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. 7:15 — no support
- 3. 7:30 — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. 8:15 — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
A cinema performance commences at 6:40 with twenty minutes of advertisements preceding a film of two hours and five minutes. State the time of its conclusion.
- 1. 9:25 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. 8:45 — no support
- 3. 8:05 — no support
- 4. 9:05 — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
Identify the method most consistent with established practice for counting on from 8:52 to 9:17.
- 1. Subtract fifty-two from seventeen — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Count each minute in reverse from 9:17 — no support
- 3. Proceed to 9:00, then add the remaining seventeen minutes — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Add fifty-two to seventeen — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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