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title: Bruv, how far away was the Fairy when she got the message? — Tales of Past Times, The Sleeping Beau… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bruv, how far away was the Fairy when she got the message? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1081 «Tales of Past Times, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, part 6: the Princess pricks her hand, the palace falls asleep, and the Prince finds her awake» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency
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# Test 3 · ★ · Tales of Past Times, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, part…

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Bruv, how far away was the Fairy when she got the message?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Bruv · **What happens:** be, get · **To what, where:** Fairy, message

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1081 «Tales of Past Times, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, part 6: the Princess pricks her hand, the palace falls asleep, and the Prince finds her awake» 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/1081-pg29021-part6/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1081-pg29021-part6:t3:1
# text = Bruv, how far away was the Fairy when she got the message?
1	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
5	away	away	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	message	message	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the Fairy |  |  |  | away *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | past | Bruv | the message |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer message=Stimulus |

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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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Just over the nearby hill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1081-pg29021-part6:t3:o1:1
# text = Just over the nearby hill
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	over	over	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	nearby	nearby	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	hill	hill	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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Very near

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1081-pg29021-part6:t3:o2:1
# text = Very near
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	near	near	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Twelve thousand leagues off

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1081-pg29021-part6:t3:o3:1
# text = Twelve thousand leagues off
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	leagues	league	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	off	off	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Ten thousand leagues away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1081-pg29021-part6:t3:o4:1
# text = Ten thousand leagues away
1	Ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	leagues	league	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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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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