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title: What would happen to Leo's phone if it kept losing about 10% an hour… — How long since? Counting back · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen to Leo's phone if it kept losing about 10% an hour after 50% at 12:00? Test 8 of lesson 108 «How long since? Counting back» of the world 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 8 · How long since? Counting back

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What would happen to Leo's phone if it kept losing about 10% an hour after 50% at 12:00?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** phone · **What happens:** happen, keep, lose · **To what, where:** 12:00

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This is test 8 of lesson 108 «How long since? Counting back» 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/108-how-long-since-counting-back/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:108-how-long-since-counting-back:t8:1
# text = What would happen to Leo's phone if it kept losing about 10% an hour after 50% at 12:00?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	Leo	Leo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
11	losing	lose	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	xcomp	_	_
12	about	about	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	after	after	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	12:00	12:00	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  | to Leo's phone | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | phone |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **lose** | gerund | phone *not said here* |  |  | 12:00 | hour |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent %=Eventuality |

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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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It would be flat at about 1:00

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:108-how-long-since-counting-back:t8:o1:1
# text = It would be flat at about 1:00
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	1:00	1:00	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | It |  |  | 1:00 |  | flat *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It would never go flat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:108-how-long-since-counting-back:t8:o2:1
# text = It would never go flat
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **go** | would | It |  |  |  |  | flat *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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

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It would be flat at about 5:00

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:108-how-long-since-counting-back:t8:o3:1
# text = It would be flat at about 5:00
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	5:00	5:00	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | It |  |  | 5:00 |  | flat *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It would be flat at about 10:00 at night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:108-how-long-since-counting-back:t8:o4:1
# text = It would be flat at about 10:00 at night
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	10:00	10:00	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | It |  |  | 10:00 at night |  | flat *property* | 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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