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title: What would happen to Amir's count if a Minecraft day lasted 10 minut… — Why time flies and why it drags · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen to Amir's count if a Minecraft day lasted 10 minutes instead of 20, over the same 2 hours? Test 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 option; Mova's c
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# Test 3 · ★★★ · Why time flies and why it drags

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What would happen to Amir's count if a Minecraft day lasted 10 minutes instead of 20, over the same 2 hours?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Minecraft day · **What happens:** happen, last

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This is test 3 · ★★★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags:t3:1
# text = What would happen to Amir's count if a Minecraft day lasted 10 minutes instead of 20, over the same 2 hours?
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	Amir	Amir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	count	count	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Minecraft	Minecraft	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	lasted	last	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
13	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	17	case	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
17	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	over	over	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  | hour | to Amir's count | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **last** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | a Minecraft day |  |  |  | minute | instead 20 | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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He would have 12 days instead of 6

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags:t3:o1:1
# text = He would have 12 days instead of 6
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	8	case	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	fixed	_	_
8	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | would | He |  |  |  | day | instead 6 | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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He would still have 6 days

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags:t3:o2:1
# text = He would still have 6 days
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	still	still	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | would | He |  |  |  | still; day |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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He would have 3 days instead of 6

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags:t3:o3:1
# text = He would have 3 days instead of 6
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	8	case	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	fixed	_	_
8	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | would | He |  |  |  | day | instead 6 | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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He would have 20 days instead of 6

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags:t3:o4:1
# text = He would have 20 days instead of 6
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	8	case	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	fixed	_	_
8	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | would | He |  |  |  | day | instead 6 | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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