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title: What would happen if a bus waited 2 minutes for a late runner at eac… — Being on time around the world, waitin… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if a bus waited 2 minutes for a late runner at each of 10 stops? Test 12 of lesson 129 «Being on time around the world, waiting your turn and deadlines» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's 
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# Test 12 · Being on time around the world, waiting your turn and dead…

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What would happen if a bus waited 2 minutes for a late runner at each of 10 stops?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** bus · **What happens:** happen, wait, stop · **To what, where:** each

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This is test 12 of lesson 129 «Being on time around the world, waiting your turn and deadlines» 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/129-being-on-time-around-the-world/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:129-being-on-time-around-the-world:t12:1
# text = What would happen if a bus waited 2 minutes for a late runner at each of 10 stops?
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	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	runner	runner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nmod	_	_
18	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **wait** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | a bus |  |  |  | minute | for a late runner | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **stop** | present | a bus *not said here* |  |  | each |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at each=Location |

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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 {#o1}

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It would be just 2 minutes late in total

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:129-being-on-time-around-the-world:t12:o1:1
# text = It would be just 2 minutes late in total
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	total	total	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | It |  |  | total | minute | late *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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It would arrive early

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:129-being-on-time-around-the-world:t12:o2:1
# text = It would arrive early
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	arrive	arrive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | would | It |  |  |  |  | early *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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It would be about 20 minutes late by the end

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:129-being-on-time-around-the-world:t12:o3:1
# text = It would be about 20 minutes late by the end
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
4	about	about	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | would | It | 20 minutes |  |  |  | late *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It would still be exactly on time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:129-being-on-time-around-the-world:t12:o4:1
# text = It would still be exactly on time
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
3	still	still	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
5	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | It |  |  |  | on time; still | exactly *property* | tree rules |

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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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