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title: Maya swears, "I only played for 10 minutes!" Clock: 4:00 to 5:10. Ho… — Why time flies and why it drags · tree and pragmatics
description: Maya swears, "I only played for 10 minutes!" Clock: 4:00 to 5:10. How much is she out by? Test 1 · ★★★ 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 option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 1 · ★★★ · Why time flies and why it drags

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Maya swears, "I only played for 10 minutes!" Clock: 4:00 to 5:10. How much is she out by?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Maya, I · **What happens:** swear, play, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 1 · ★★★ of lesson 110 «Why time flies and why it drags» 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/110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Maya swears, "I only played for 10 minutes!"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags:t1:1
# text = Maya swears, "I only played for 10 minutes!"
1	Maya	Maya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	swears	swear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swear** | present | Maya |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **play** *in a quote* | past | I |  |  |  | minute |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:* Clock: 4:00 to 5:10.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags:t1:2
# text = Clock: 4:00 to 5:10.
1	Clock	clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
3	4:00	4:00	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	appos	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	5:10	5:10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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*Sentence 3:* How much is she out by?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags:t1:3
# text = How much is she out by?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	2	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Maya |  |  |  |  | much *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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60 minutes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags:t1:o1:1
# text = 60 minutes
1	60	60	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	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 {#o2}

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70 minutes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags:t1:o2:1
# text = 70 minutes
1	70	70	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	minutes	minute	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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10 minutes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags:t1:o3:1
# text = 10 minutes
1	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	minutes	minute	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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50 minutes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags:t1:o4:1
# text = 50 minutes
1	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	minutes	minute	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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