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Exam question 4 · Receipts, refunds, queues and self-checkout

It is given that ten customers are queued and that each is served in two minutes. Determine the duration of the wait for a customer joining at the rear.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, customer · What happens: give, queue, serve, determine, join · To what, where: It, that, each, duration, rear

This is exam question 4 of lesson 14 «Receipts, refunds, queues and self-checkout» of the money 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

Sentence 1: It is given that ten customers are queued and that each is served in two minutes.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 given	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 given	aux:pass
3	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 queued	nsubj:pass
5	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 customers	nummod
6	customers	customer	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 queued	nsubj:pass
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 queued	aux:pass
8	queued	queue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 given	ccomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 served	cc
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 served	mark
11	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	13 served	nsubj:pass
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 served	aux:pass
13	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 given	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 minutes	case
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 minutes	nummod
16	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 served	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 given	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present · passive		It					tree rules
2	queue	present · passive		that					tree rules
3	serve	present · passive		each			minute		vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute

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: Determine the duration of the wait for a customer joining at the rear.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 duration	det
3	duration	duration	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Determine	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 wait	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wait	det
6	wait	wait	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 duration	nmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 customer	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 customer	det
9	customer	customer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wait	nmod
10	joining	join	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 customer	acl
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 rear	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 rear	det
13	rear	rear	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 joining	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here	the duration of the wait for a customer					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duration=Topic
2	join	gerund	a customer not said here			the rear			vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Twenty minutes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 minutes	nummod
2	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Ten minutes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 minutes	nummod
2	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Twelve minutes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 minutes	nummod
2	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Five minutes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 minutes	nummod
2	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

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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