--- title: Being on time around the world, waiting your turn and dead… — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · World description: The 16 test and exam questions of lesson 129 «Being on time around the world, waiting your turn and deadlines» of the world course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/129-being-on-time-around-the-world/) [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/) / Being on time around the world, waitin… # Being on time around the world, waiting your turn and deadlines The 16 questions of lesson 129 «Being on time around the world, waiting your turn and deadlines» of the world course of Mova's primary school with their options, 104 sentences, every one parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/world/129-being-on-time-around-the-world/). - [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/129-being-on-time-around-the-world/t1/) — Callum: "Sorry for being early? That's mad." Why did the Japanese company say sorry? — wrong ✗ - [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/129-being-on-time-around-the-world/t2/) — Tom, from Leeds: "Dinner at half nine?! I'm in bed by then, me." Maria: "Is normal in Spain!" Who's wrong? — wrong ✗ - [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/129-being-on-time-around-the-world/t3/) — Lukas comes at 2:55 and Ana at 3:30 for a 3:00 playdate, and both think they were on time. What's the best way to see it? — right ✓ - [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/129-being-on-time-around-the-world/t4/) — Kai: "Oi, back of the line, mate!" Ollie: "Chill, it's only one person." There are 10 kids ahead, each taking 1 minute. What did Ollie do? — wrong ✗ - [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/129-being-on-time-around-the-world/t5/) — Holly: "Project's due Monday, I'll smash it Sunday night from 8." It takes 3 hours, and bedtime's 9. What happens? — wrong ✗ - [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/129-being-on-time-around-the-world/t6/) — Jake: "20 minutes a day? That's nothing, innit." Over 2 weeks, how much is it? — wrong ✗ - [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/129-being-on-time-around-the-world/t7/) — Amir, running at the bus: "Wait, ya muppet!" The bus goes. Whose job was it to be there on time? — right ✓ - [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/129-being-on-time-around-the-world/t8/) — Leo's dad, from Dublin, hears the food will be 20 minutes: "Grand, we'll have a drink so." ("Grand" means fine.) What's sensible about this? — right ✓ - [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/129-being-on-time-around-the-world/t9/) — Mia's mum: "Your teacher's time is precious too." Mia: "It's only 5 minutes, it's giving drama." ("It's giving drama" means you're making a fuss.) What's Mum's point? — wrong ✗ - [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/129-being-on-time-around-the-world/t10/) — Ella's mum sits in the car from 9:50 for a "10 sharp" meeting. Why? — wrong ✗ - [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/129-being-on-time-around-the-world/t11/) — Kofi's teacher: "Late once is an accident. Late every day is a choice." What would fix Kofi's lateness? — right ✓ - [t12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/129-being-on-time-around-the-world/t12/) — What would happen if a bus waited 2 minutes for a late runner at each of 10 stops? — wrong ✗ - [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/129-being-on-time-around-the-world/e1/) — Identify the principal reason for which the early departure of a train is regarded in Japan as a failure. — wrong ✗ · exam - [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/129-being-on-time-around-the-world/e2/) — Given that a pupil devotes twenty minutes daily to a project over a period of fourteen days, determine the aggregate time so expended. — wrong ✗ · exam - [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/129-being-on-time-around-the-world/e3/) — A task requiring three hours is commenced at eight o'clock in the evening. Ascertain the hour of its completion. — wrong ✗ · exam - [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/129-being-on-time-around-the-world/e4/) — Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the term "procrastination". — wrong ✗ · exam - ← previous: [128. Growing up: ages of people and pets, and the "do…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/128-growing-up-ages-dog-years/) - next →: [130. Screen time, wasted time, and putting it all tog…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/130-screen-time-and-putting-it-together/) - ↑ back to [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/)