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title: Why do people say queuing is very important in Britain? — Queues, taking turns and interrupting · tree and pragmatics
description: Why do people say queuing is very important in Britain? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 223 «Queues, taking turns and interrupting» of the everyday 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 4 · ★ · Queues, taking turns and interrupting

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Why do people say queuing is very important in Britain?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** people, queuing · **What happens:** say, be · **To what, where:** Britain · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 223 «Queues, taking turns and interrupting» of the everyday 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/everyday/223-queues-taking-turns-and-interrupting/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:223-queues-taking-turns-and-interrupting:t4:1
# text = Why do people say queuing is very important in Britain?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	queuing	queuing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	ccomp	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · do-support | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | queuing |  |  | Britain |  | important *property* | tree rules |

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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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Only tourists queue there

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:223-queues-taking-turns-and-interrupting:t4:o1:1
# text = Only tourists queue there
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	tourists	tourist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	queue	queue	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **queue** | present | tourists |  |  | there |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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British people value fair queuing highly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:223-queues-taking-turns-and-interrupting:t4:o2:1
# text = British people value fair queuing highly
1	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	value	value	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	queuing	queuing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	highly	highly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **value** | present | British people | fair queuing |  |  |  | highly *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer queuing=Stimulus |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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British shops are very small

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:223-queues-taking-turns-and-interrupting:t4:o3:1
# text = British shops are very small
1	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	shops	shop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | British shops |  |  |  |  | small *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Queuing is the law in all British shops and cafés

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:223-queues-taking-turns-and-interrupting:t4:o4:1
# text = Queuing is the law in all British shops and cafés
1	Queuing	queuing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
7	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	shops	shop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	cafés	café	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Queuing | the law |  | all British shops and cafés |  |  | tree rules |

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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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