--- title: Dude, how long did he spend on his new ships? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Wild Swans… · tree and pragmatics description: Dude, how long did he spend on his new ships? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1020 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Wild Swans, part 231: a proud prince is beaten by a gnat; a wicked queen plots against Eliza» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1020-pg27200-part231/t4/) [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/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Wild Swans…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1020-pg27200-part231/) / t4 # Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Wild Swans, part 231: a proud… Dude, how long did he spend on his new ships? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** he · **What happens:** spend · **To what, where:** new ships This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1020 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Wild Swans, part 231: a proud prince is beaten by a gnat; a wicked queen plots against Eliza» of the books 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/books/1020-pg27200-part231/#t4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1020-pg27200-part231:t4:1 # text = Dude, how long did he spend on his new ships? 1 Dude dude NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 3 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 4 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 7 advmod _ _ 5 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 spend spend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 ships ship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spend** | past · do-support | he | | | | | on his new ships *goal*; long *property* | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent on ship=Goal | 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 {#o1} Five whole years ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1020-pg27200-part231:t4:o1:1 # text = Five whole years 1 Five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 2 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Seven whole years ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1020-pg27200-part231:t4:o2:1 # text = Seven whole years 1 Seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 2 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Three long years ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1020-pg27200-part231:t4:o3:1 # text = Three long years 1 Three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 2 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Many whole years of building, hammering and sailing ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1020-pg27200-part231:t4:o4:1 # text = Many whole years of building, hammering and sailing 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 building building NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 hammering hammer VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 sailing sail VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hammer** | gerund | Many whole years of building | | | | | | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **sail** | gerund | Many whole years of building *not said here* | | | | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | **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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