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title: so how long did they wait for the judging at Tara? — Fionn Tales, The Brawl at the Feast, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: so how long did they wait for the judging at Tara? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 1055 «Fionn Tales, The Brawl at the Feast, part 23: Goll's boast starts a hall-wide fight, then judges at Tara give their ruling» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the quest
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# Test 9 · ★ · Fionn Tales, The Brawl at the Feast, part 23: Goll's boast…

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so how long did they wait for the judging at Tara?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** they · **What happens:** wait, judge · **To what, where:** Tara

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1055 «Fionn Tales, The Brawl at the Feast, part 23: Goll's boast starts a hall-wide fight, then judges at Tara give their ruling» 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/1055-pg2892-part23/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1055-pg2892-part23:t9:1
# text = so how long did they wait for the judging at Tara?
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
3	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	judging	judge	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Tara	Tara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | past · do-support | they |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **judge** | gerund | they *not said here* |  |  | Tara |  |  | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent at tara=Value |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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a fortnight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1055-pg2892-part23:t9:o1:1
# text = a fortnight
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fortnight	fortnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a month

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1055-pg2892-part23:t9:o2:1
# text = a month
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a week

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1055-pg2892-part23:t9:o3:1
# text = a week
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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three days

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1055-pg2892-part23:t9:o4:1
# text = three days
1	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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