--- title: Queues, taking turns and interrupting — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · Everyday description: The 23 test and exam questions of lesson 223 «Queues, taking turns and interrupting» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/223-queues-taking-turns-and-interrupting/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/) / Queues, taking turns and interrupting # Queues, taking turns and interrupting The 23 questions of lesson 223 «Queues, taking turns and interrupting» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with their options, 122 sentences, every one parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/223-queues-taking-turns-and-interrupting/). - [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/223-queues-taking-turns-and-interrupting/t1/) — A girl in Dallas arrives at a busy ice-cream van. Where should she go? — right ✓ · ★ - [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/223-queues-taking-turns-and-interrupting/t2/) — Children are pushing in the queue for the slide. What could happen? — right ✓ · ★ - [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/223-queues-taking-turns-and-interrupting/t3/) — A mum with a crying baby is behind you at the chemist's. What is a kind choice? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/223-queues-taking-turns-and-interrupting/t4/) — Why do people say queuing is very important in Britain? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/223-queues-taking-turns-and-interrupting/t5/) — Two brothers argue every morning over who feeds the dog. What is a fair way out? — right ✓ · ★ - [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/223-queues-taking-turns-and-interrupting/t6/) — In a class discussion, Tom always speaks first and longest. What would be fairer? — right ✓ · ★ - [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/223-queues-taking-turns-and-interrupting/t7/) — Which is the polite way to interrupt two grown-ups talking? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/223-queues-taking-turns-and-interrupting/t8/) — Grandpa is watching the news and you want to tell him about school. What is best? — right ✓ · ★ - [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/223-queues-taking-turns-and-interrupting/t9/) — Lucy's dad feels her hand on his arm while he talks. What does it tell him? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/223-queues-taking-turns-and-interrupting/t10/) — queue for the ice cream van is massive, gonna sneak in the front — right ✓ · ★ - [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/223-queues-taking-turns-and-interrupting/t11/) — mum's talkin to a lady and i need to tell her something NOW — right ✓ · ★ - [t12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/223-queues-taking-turns-and-interrupting/t12/) — my friend stammers, can i finish his sentences for him to help — right ✓ · ★ - [t13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/223-queues-taking-turns-and-interrupting/t13/) — been on the swing ages and theres kids waiting — right ✓ · ★ - [t14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/223-queues-taking-turns-and-interrupting/t14/) — lunch line so slow, gonna push to the front — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/223-queues-taking-turns-and-interrupting/t15/) — Why is shoving on bus steps dangerous? — right ✓ · ★ - [t16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/223-queues-taking-turns-and-interrupting/t16/) — mum's on the phone, i need her NOW, sis cut her hand bad — right ✓ · ★ - [t17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/223-queues-taking-turns-and-interrupting/t17/) — did u hear a kid pushed in the lunch queue and a girl got shoved into the hot soup and burnt her arm? real lesson? — right ✓ · ★ - [t18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/223-queues-taking-turns-and-interrupting/t18/) — apparently in England people go to prison for queue-jumping, my cousin says. probably true? — right ✓ · ★ - [t19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/223-queues-taking-turns-and-interrupting/t19/) — everyone's saying that boy with the stammer takes forever to talk so don't pick him for the quiz team. pass it on? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/223-queues-taking-turns-and-interrupting/e1/) — Identify the principal reason for which persons join the end of a queue. — wrong ✗ · exam - [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/223-queues-taking-turns-and-interrupting/e2/) — Which of the following constitutes the appropriate manner of speaking while a parent converses with another person? — right ✓ · exam - [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/223-queues-taking-turns-and-interrupting/e3/) — Select the response consistent with established practice in respect of a person who stammers. — right ✓ · exam - [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/223-queues-taking-turns-and-interrupting/e4/) — Ascertain the persons whom one might allow to go ahead in a queue. — right ✓ · exam - ← previous: [222. 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