Test 9 · ★★★ · Why time flies and why it drags

Mila asks "are we there yet?" every 10 minutes on a 3-hour drive. Dad: "Ask one more time and you're walking!" If she asks every 20 minutes instead, how many times will she ask?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mila, we, Dad, you · What happens: ask, be, walk · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★★★ 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

Sentence 1: Mila asks "are we there yet?" every 10 minutes on a 3-hour drive.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mila	Mila	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 asks	nsubj
2	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 there	punct
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 there	cop
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 there	nsubj
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 asks	ccomp
7	yet	yet	ADV	_	6 there	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 there	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 there	punct
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 minutes	det
11	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 minutes	nummod
12	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 asks	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	18 drive	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 drive	det
15	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	17 hour	nummod
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 3	punct
17	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 drive	compound
18	drive	drive	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 minutes	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 asks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	Mila				minute		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	we				yet	there property	tree rules

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: Dad: "Ask one more time and you're walking!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Ask	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 Ask	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Ask	punct
4	Ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 time	nummod
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 time	amod
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Ask	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 walking	cc
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 walking	nsubj
10	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 walking	aux
11	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 Ask	conj
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 Ask	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Ask	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask in a quote	infinitive	Dad				time		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	walk in a quote	present · progressive	you						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Sentence 3: If she asks every 20 minutes instead, how many times will she ask?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 asks	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 asks	nsubj
3	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 ask	advcl
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 minutes	det
5	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 minutes	nummod
6	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 asks	obj
7	instead	instead	ADV	_	3 asks	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 asks	punct
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 many	advmod
10	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 times	amod
11	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 ask	obl:unmarked
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 ask	aux
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 ask	nsubj
14	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 ask	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask a condition, not said to happen	present	Mila				minute	instead property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	ask speech: ask	future	Mila				time		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 2

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	18	18	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	6	6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	9	9	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	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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