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title: What would happen if you spent 40 of the 60 minutes on the first text? — SATs: the reading paper · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if you spent 40 of the 60 minutes on the first text? Test 2 · ★★ of lesson 51 «SATs: the reading paper» of the English course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 2 · ★★ · SATs: the reading paper

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What would happen if you spent 40 of the 60 minutes on the first text?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** happen, spend · **To what, where:** 40, first text

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This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 51 «SATs: the reading paper» of the English 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/english/51-sats-the-reading-paper/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:51-sats-the-reading-paper:t2:1
# text = What would happen if you spent 40 of the 60 minutes on the first text?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	spent	spend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	40	40	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	60	60	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	15	amod	_	_
15	text	text	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **spend** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | you | 40 of the 60 minutes |  |  |  | on the first text *goal* | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent 40=Asset on text=Goal |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Nothing, because time does not matter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:51-sats-the-reading-paper:t2:o1:1
# text = Nothing, because time does not matter
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	matter	matter	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **matter** | present · do-support |  |  |  |  | time |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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You would be given extra time at the end

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:51-sats-the-reading-paper:t2:o2:1
# text = You would be given extra time at the end
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	extra	extra	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | would · passive |  | You |  |  | at the end; time |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: subject=Theme at end=Asset |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The other two texts would become easier

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:51-sats-the-reading-paper:t2:o3:1
# text = The other two texts would become easier
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	texts	text	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	easier	easy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | would | the other two texts |  |  |  |  | easy *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Too little time would be left for the others

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:51-sats-the-reading-paper:t2:o4:1
# text = Too little time would be left for the others
1	Too	too	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | would · passive |  |  |  |  | time | for the others | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: for other=Recipient |

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**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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