Test 8 · ★★ · "Five more minutes" and other waiting games

What would happen if a queue had 6 people in front of you, each taking about 3 minutes?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: queue, each · What happens: happen, have, take · To what, where: 6 people, front

This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 109 «"Five more minutes" and other waiting games» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 had	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 queue	det
6	queue	queue	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	6	6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 people	nummod
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 had	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 front	case
11	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 people	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 you	case
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 front	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 taking	punct
15	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	16 taking	nsubj
16	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 had	advcl
17	about	about	ADV	_	18 3	advmod
18	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 minutes	nummod
19	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 taking	obj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	happen	would					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have a condition, not said to happen	past	a queue	6 people	front of you		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient
3	take	gerund	each			minute	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

You would wait about 18 minutes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 wait	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 wait	aux
3	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	about	about	ADV	_	5 18	advmod
5	18	18	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 minutes	nummod
6	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wait	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	would	You				minute		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

You would wait about 9 minutes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 wait	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 wait	aux
3	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	about	about	ADV	_	5 9	advmod
5	9	9	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 minutes	nummod
6	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wait	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	would	You				minute		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

You would wait about 63 minutes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 wait	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 wait	aux
3	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	about	about	ADV	_	5 63	advmod
5	63	63	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 minutes	nummod
6	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wait	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	would	You				minute		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

You would wait about 3 minutes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 wait	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 wait	aux
3	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	about	about	ADV	_	5 3	advmod
5	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 minutes	nummod
6	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wait	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	would	You				minute		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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