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title: Why time flies and why it drags — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · World
description: The 16 test and exam questions of lesson 110 «Why time flies and why it drags» of the world course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Why time flies and why it drags

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The 16 questions of lesson 110 «Why time flies and why it drags» of the world course of Mova's primary school with their options, 99 sentences, every one parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/world/110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags/).

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- [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags/t1/) — Maya swears, "I only played for 10 minutes!" Clock: 4:00 to 5:10. How much is she out by? — right ✓ · ★★★
- [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags/t2/) — Amir: "I've had 6 days in Minecraft and it's only been 2 hours!" Is his maths right if a Minecraft day is 20 minutes? — right ✓ · ★★★
- [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags/t3/) — What would happen to Amir's count if a Minecraft day lasted 10 minutes instead of 20, over the same 2 hours? — right ✓ · ★★★
- [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags/t4/) — Ivy: "Christmas can't come quicker, Mum, it's always 365 days." Mum: "It feels quicker every year." Who's right? — right ✓ · ★★★
- [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags/t5/) — Grandad, an old-school boomer (an older person): "Back in my day a summer lasted forever, now a year's gone in a blink." What's a good scientific answer? — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags/t6/) — A dreich wet Sunday with nothing to do feels endless. A day at the beach flies past. Both days have how many hours? — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags/t7/) — Kai: "Homework's 20 minutes? That's forever. Fortnite's 20 minutes? That's quick." What's a clever way to beat this? — right ✓ · ★★★
- [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags/t8/) — Lexi says, "The dentist made the clock slow, it's giving broken clock." What's really true? — right ✓ · ★★★
- [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags/t9/) — Mila asks "are we there yet?" every 10 minutes on a 3-hour drive. Dad: "Ask one more time and you're walking!" If she asks every 20 minutes instead, how many times will she ask? — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags/t10/) — Oscar's brother: "50 years an hour, that's a year a minute, sound." Is "a year a minute" exactly right? — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags/t11/) — Tom, after his scary lesson: "That half hour lasted two hours, I swear." Why might his memory say so? — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [t12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags/t12/) — A cartoon says a magic clock runs faster when you're happy. What is true in real life? — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags/e1/) — Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning the speed of a clock during an enjoyable activity. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags/e2/) — It is given that an in-game day endures twenty real minutes. Determine the number of such days contained within two real hours. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags/e3/) — Whereas a journey occupies three hours and a question is posed every ten minutes, ascertain the total number of questions. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags/e4/) — Identify one proposed explanation for the perception that years pass more swiftly with advancing age. — right ✓ · exam

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