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title: ngl, how long was the peace for, like six days or six weeks? — Irish Fairy Tales, The Salmon of Knowl… · tree and pragmatics
description: ngl, how long was the peace for, like six days or six weeks? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 1042 «Irish Fairy Tales, The Salmon of Knowledge, part 10: Fionn roasts the salmon, is tempted, and sets out for Tara» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questi
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# Test 9 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, The Salmon of Knowledge, part 10: Fionn…

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ngl, how long was the peace for, like six days or six weeks?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** peace

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1042 «Irish Fairy Tales, The Salmon of Knowledge, part 10: Fionn roasts the salmon, is tempted, and sets out for Tara» 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/1042-pg2892-part10/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1042-pg2892-part10:t9:1
# text = ngl, how long was the peace for, like six days or six weeks?
1	ngl	ngl	PROPN	NNP	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	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the peace |  |  | day | long *property* | tree rules |

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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 {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
six months

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1042-pg2892-part10:t9:o1:1
# text = six months
1	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
through the whole of the winter and spring

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1042-pg2892-part10:t9:o2:1
# text = through the whole of the winter and spring
1	through	through	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
six weeks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1042-pg2892-part10:t9:o3:1
# text = six weeks
1	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
for six full weeks before the feast ended

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1042-pg2892-part10:t9:o4:1
# text = for six full weeks before the feast ended
1	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
5	before	before	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	ended	end	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **end** | past |  |  |  |  | week |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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