Test 3 · ★★★ · Why time flies and why it drags

What would happen to Amir's count if a Minecraft day lasted 10 minutes instead of 20, over the same 2 hours?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Minecraft day · What happens: happen, last

This is test 3 · ★★★ of lesson 110 «Why time flies and why it drags» 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	to	to	ADP	_	7 count	case
5	Amir	Amir	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 count	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Amir	case
7	count	count	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 lasted	mark
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 day	det
10	Minecraft	Minecraft	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 day	compound
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lasted	nsubj
12	lasted	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
13	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 minutes	nummod
14	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 lasted	obl:unmarked
15	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	17 20	case
16	of	of	ADP	_	15 instead	fixed
17	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 lasted	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 hours	punct
19	over	over	ADP	_	23 hours	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 hours	det
21	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 hours	amod
22	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	23 hours	nummod
23	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	obl
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would					hour	to Amir's count	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	last a condition, not said to happen	past	a Minecraft day				minute	instead 20	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme

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

He would have 12 days instead of 6

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	12	12	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 days	nummod
5	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
6	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	8 6	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	6 instead	fixed
8	6	6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 have	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	He				day	instead 6	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

He would still have 6 days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
3	still	still	ADV	_	4 have	advmod
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	6	6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 days	nummod
6	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	He				still; day		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

He would have 3 days instead of 6

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 days	nummod
5	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
6	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	8 6	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	6 instead	fixed
8	6	6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 have	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	He				day	instead 6	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

He would have 20 days instead of 6

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 days	nummod
5	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
6	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	8 6	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	6 instead	fixed
8	6	6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 have	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	He				day	instead 6	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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