--- title: It is given that an in-game day endures twenty real minutes. Determi… — Why time flies and why it drags · tree and pragmatics description: It is given that an in-game day endures twenty real minutes. Determine the number of such days contained within two real hours. 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Determine the number of such days contained within two real hours. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** game day, you · **What happens:** give, endure, determine, contain · **To what, where:** It, number, such days This is exam question 2 of lesson 110 «Why time flies and why it drags» 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/110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags/#e2). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* It is given that an in-game day endures twenty real minutes. ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags:e2:1 # text = It is given that an in-game day endures twenty real minutes. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 that that SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 5 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ SpaceAfter=No 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 endures endure VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 11 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 12 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | present · passive | | It | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **endure** | present | a game day | | | | minute | | vn exist-47.1-1 «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. *Sentence 2:* Determine the number of such days contained within two real hours. ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags:e2:2 # text = Determine the number of such days contained within two real hours. 1 Determine determine VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 7 contained contain VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 8 within within ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 10 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **determine** | imperative | you *not said here* | the number of such days | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic | | 2 | **contain** | participle | | such days *not said here* | | | hour | | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Two ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags:e2:o1:1 # text = Two 1 Two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Six ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags:e2:o2:1 # text = Six 1 Six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Twelve ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags:e2:o3:1 # text = Twelve 1 Twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Forty ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags:e2:o4:1 # text = Forty 1 Forty forty NOUN NN Number=Sing 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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