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# Test 7 · ★★ · Late and early: being where you need to be on time

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Lucy, salty (annoyed): "It's only 10 minutes, who cares?" If she's 10 minutes late every school day for 190 days, how much does she miss?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** It, 10 minutes, Lucy · **What happens:** be, care, miss · **To what, where:** 10 minutes

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This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 106 «Late and early: being where you need to be on time» of the world 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/world/106-late-and-early-being-on-time/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Lucy, salty (annoyed): "It's only 10 minutes, who cares?"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:106-late-and-early-being-on-time:t7:1
# text = Lucy, salty (annoyed): "It's only 10 minutes, who cares?"
1	Lucy	Lucy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	salty	salty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	only	only	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	cares	care	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | It | 10 minutes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **care** *in a quote* | present | 10 minutes |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:* If she's 10 minutes late every school day for 190 days, how much does she miss?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:106-late-and-early-being-on-time:t7:2
# text = If she's 10 minutes late every school day for 190 days, how much does she miss?
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
8	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	190	190	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
15	much	much	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	miss	miss	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | Lucy |  |  |  | day; minute | late *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **miss** | present · do-support | Lucy |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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About 19 minutes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:106-late-and-early-being-on-time:t7:o1:1
# text = About 19 minutes
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	19	19	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 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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More than 31 hours

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:106-late-and-early-being-on-time:t7:o2:1
# text = More than 31 hours
1	More	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	3	advmod	_	_
2	than	than	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	31	31	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	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 {#o3}

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Exactly 10 hours

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:106-late-and-early-being-on-time:t7:o3:1
# text = Exactly 10 hours
1	Exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|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 4 {#o4}

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About 3 hours

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:106-late-and-early-being-on-time:t7:o4:1
# text = About 3 hours
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|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.

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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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