--- title: Mila asks "are we there yet?" every 10 minutes on a 3-hour drive. Da… — Why time flies and why it drags · tree and pragmatics description: 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? 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If she asks every 20 minutes instead, how many times will she ask? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mila, we, Dad, you · **What happens:** ask, be, walk · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 9 · ★★★ 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/#t9). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Mila asks "are we there yet?" every 10 minutes on a 3-hour drive. ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags:t9:1 # text = Mila asks "are we there yet?" every 10 minutes on a 3-hour drive. 1 Mila Mila PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 2 ccomp _ _ 7 yet yet ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 10 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 12 det _ _ 11 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 13 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 15 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 drive drive NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Mila | | | | minute | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | we | | | | yet | there *property* | tree rules | 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:* Dad: "Ask one more time and you're walking!" ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags:t9:2 # text = Dad: "Ask one more time and you're walking!" 1 Dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 Ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 6 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 7 amod _ _ 7 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 walking walk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ! ! PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | infinitive | Dad | | | | time | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **walk** *in a quote* | present · progressive | you | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | *Sentence 3:* If she asks every 20 minutes instead, how many times will she ask? ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags:t9:3 # text = If she asks every 20 minutes instead, how many times will she ask? 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 4 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 6 det _ _ 5 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 7 instead instead ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 9 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 10 advmod _ _ 10 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl:unmarked _ _ 12 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ? ? PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | Mila | | | | minute | instead *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | future | Mila | | | | time | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} 20 ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags:t9:o1:1 # text = 20 1 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} 18 ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags:t9:o2:1 # text = 18 1 18 18 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} 6 ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags:t9:o3:1 # text = 6 1 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} 9 ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags:t9:o4:1 # text = 9 1 9 9 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|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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