--- title: Whereas a journey occupies three hours and a question is posed every… — Why time flies and why it drags · tree and pragmatics description: Whereas a journey occupies three hours and a question is posed every ten minutes, ascertain the total number of questions. Exam question 3 of lesson 110 «Why time flies and why it drags» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags/e3/) [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/) / [Why time flies and why it drags](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags/) / e3 # Exam question 3 · Why time flies and why it drags Whereas a journey occupies three hours and a question is posed every ten minutes, ascertain the total number of questions. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** journey, you · **What happens:** occupy, pose, ascertain · **To what, where:** question, total number This is exam question 3 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/#e3). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags:e3:1 # text = Whereas a journey occupies three hours and a question is posed every ten minutes, ascertain the total number of questions. 1 Whereas whereas SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 occupies occupy VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 5 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 question question NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj:pass _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 posed pose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 12 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 14 det _ _ 13 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 ascertain ascertain VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 total total ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 questions question NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **occupy** | present | a journey | | | | hour | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **pose** | present · passive | | a question | | | minute | | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute | | 3 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the total number of questions | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic | 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} Thirteen ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags:e3:o1:1 # text = Thirteen 1 Thirteen thirteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Three ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags:e3:o2:1 # text = Three 1 Three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Eighteen ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags:e3:o3:1 # text = Eighteen 1 Eighteen eighteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Thirty ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags:e3:o4:1 # text = Thirty 1 Thirty thirty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 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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