Test 12 · Being on time around the world, waiting your turn and dead…

What would happen if a bus waited 2 minutes for a late runner at each of 10 stops?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bus · What happens: happen, wait, stop · To what, where: each

This is test 12 of lesson 129 «Being on time around the world, waiting your turn and deadlines» 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 waited	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bus	det
6	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 waited	nsubj
7	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 minutes	nummod
9	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 waited	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 runner	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 runner	det
12	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 runner	amod
13	runner	runner	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 waited	obl
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 each	case
15	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	18 stops	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 10	case
17	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 each	nmod
18	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 waited	conj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wait a condition, not said to happen	past	a bus		minute	for a late runner	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stop	present	a bus not said here	each			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at each=Location

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

It would be just 2 minutes late in total

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	7 late	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 late	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 late	cop
4	just	just	ADV	_	7 late	advmod
5	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 minutes	nummod
6	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 late	obl:unmarked
7	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 total	case
9	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 late	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	It			total	minute	late property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It would arrive early

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 arrive	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 arrive	aux
3	arrive	arrive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 arrive	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrive	would	It					early property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It would be about 20 minutes late by the end

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	6 minutes	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 minutes	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 minutes	cop
4	about	about	ADV	_	5 20	advmod
5	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 minutes	nummod
6	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 minutes	advmod
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 end	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 end	det
10	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 late	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	would	It	20 minutes				late property	tree rules

Option 4

It would still be exactly on time

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	7 time	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 time	aux
3	still	still	ADV	_	7 time	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 time	cop
5	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	7 time	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 time	case
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	It				on time; still	exactly property	tree rules

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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