--- title: Ascertain the aggregate time lost by a pupil arriving ten minutes la… — Late and early: being where you need t… · tree and pragmatics description: Ascertain the aggregate time lost by a pupil arriving ten minutes late upon each of one hundred and ninety school days. Exam question 4 of lesson 106 «Late and early: being where you need to be on time» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the ques --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/106-late-and-early-being-on-time/e4/) [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/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/) / [Late and early: being where you need t…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/106-late-and-early-being-on-time/) / e4 # Exam question 4 · Late and early: being where you need to be on time Ascertain the aggregate time lost by a pupil arriving ten minutes late upon each of one hundred and ninety school days. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, pupil · **What happens:** ascertain, lose, arrive · **To what, where:** aggregate time This is exam question 4 of lesson 106 «Late and early: being where you need to be on time» of the world course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/world/106-late-and-early-being-on-time/#e4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:106-late-and-early-being-on-time:e4:1 # text = Ascertain the aggregate time lost by a pupil arriving ten minutes late upon each of one hundred and ninety school days. 1 Ascertain ascertain VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 aggregate aggregate NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl _ _ 6 by by ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 pupil pupil NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 arriving arrive VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 acl _ _ 10 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl:unmarked _ _ 12 late late ADV RB Degree=Pos 9 advmod _ _ 13 upon upon ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 9 obl _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 16 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 compound _ _ 17 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 ninety ninety NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 conj _ _ 20 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | time | | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **lose** | participle | | the aggregate time *not said here* | | | | by a pupil | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **arrive** | gerund | a pupil *not said here* | | | | | upon each; late *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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} One hundred and ninety minutes ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:106-late-and-early-being-on-time:e4:o1:1 # text = One hundred and ninety minutes 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 compound _ _ 2 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 ninety ninety NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 conj _ _ 5 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Two hundred minutes ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:106-late-and-early-being-on-time:e4:o2:1 # text = Two hundred minutes 1 Two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 compound _ _ 2 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} One thousand nine hundred minutes ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:106-late-and-early-being-on-time:e4:o3:1 # text = One thousand nine hundred minutes 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 compound _ _ 2 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 compound _ _ 3 nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 compound _ _ 4 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Nineteen thousand minutes ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:106-late-and-early-being-on-time:e4:o4:1 # text = Nineteen thousand minutes 1 Nineteen nineteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 compound _ _ 2 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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