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title: ★★★ «Wah confirm one hour lah» about a queue of 10 people, each serv… — ★★★ Olympiad: hyperbole and downplayin… · tree and pragmatics
description: ★★★ «Wah confirm one hour lah» about a queue of 10 people, each served in 2 minutes. About how long is the real wait? Test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 55 «★★★ Olympiad: hyperbole and downplaying puzzles» of the language course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question 
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# Test 11 · ★★★ · ★★★ Olympiad: hyperbole and downplaying puzzles

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★★★ «Wah confirm one hour lah» about a queue of 10 people, each served in 2 minutes. About how long is the real wait?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ★ ★ ★, queue · **What happens:** confirm, serve, be · **To what, where:** hour lah, each, real wait

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This is test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 55 «★★★ Olympiad: hyperbole and downplaying puzzles» of the language 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/language/55-olympiad-hyperbole-and-downplaying-puzzles/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* ★★★ «Wah confirm one hour lah» about a queue of 10 people, each served in 2 minutes.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:55-olympiad-hyperbole-and-downplaying-puzzles:t11:1
# text = ★★★ «Wah confirm one hour lah» about a queue of 10 people, each served in 2 minutes.
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	★	★	X	FW	_	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	★	★	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Wah	Wah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	confirm	confirm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	lah	lah	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	about	about	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	queue	queue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	served	serve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **confirm** *in a quote* | infinitive | ★ ★ ★ | hour lah |  |  |  | about a queue of 10 people | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot lah=Topic |
| 2 | **serve** | participle · passive | a queue of 10 people *not said here* | each |  |  | minute |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* About how long is the real wait?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:55-olympiad-hyperbole-and-downplaying-puzzles:t11:2
# text = About how long is the real wait?
1	About	about	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
3	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	obl	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	wait	wait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the real wait |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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About one hour

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:55-olympiad-hyperbole-and-downplaying-puzzles:t11:o1:1
# text = About one hour
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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About two hours

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:55-olympiad-hyperbole-and-downplaying-puzzles:t11:o2:1
# text = About two hours
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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About 20 minutes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:55-olympiad-hyperbole-and-downplaying-puzzles:t11:o3:1
# text = About 20 minutes
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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About 10 minutes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:55-olympiad-hyperbole-and-downplaying-puzzles:t11:o4:1
# text = About 10 minutes
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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