--- title: What was the distance, as stated in the narrative, to the army whose… — Perrault, Little Thumb: Little Thumb t… · tree and pragmatics description: What was the distance, as stated in the narrative, to the army whose battle the King awaited? Exam question 3 of lesson 1090 «Perrault, Little Thumb: Little Thumb takes the Ogre's boots and gold and becomes rich» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1090-pg29021-part15/e3/) [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/) / [Perrault, Little Thumb: Little Thumb t…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1090-pg29021-part15/) / e3 # Exam question 3 · Perrault, Little Thumb: Little Thumb takes the Ogre's boot… What was the distance, as stated in the narrative, to the army whose battle the King awaited? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** battle · **What happens:** be, state, await · **To what, where:** distance, narrative This is exam question 3 of lesson 1090 «Perrault, Little Thumb: Little Thumb takes the Ogre's boots and gold and becomes rich» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/1090-pg29021-part15/#e3). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1090-pg29021-part15:e3:1 # text = What was the distance, as stated in the narrative, to the army whose battle the King awaited? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 distance distance NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 as as SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 stated state VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl:relcl _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 narrative narrative NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 army army NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 15 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 battle battle NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 appos _ _ 19 awaited await VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | | the distance and the army | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **state** *speech: other* | participle | | the distance and the army *not said here* | | the narrative | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **await** | participle | battle | | | | | | tree rules | 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} Ten leagues ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1090-pg29021-part15:e3:o1:1 # text = Ten leagues 1 Ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 leagues league NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Two hundred leagues ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1090-pg29021-part15:e3:o2:1 # text = Two hundred leagues 1 Two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 compound _ _ 2 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 leagues league NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} A hundred leagues ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1090-pg29021-part15:e3:o3:1 # text = A hundred leagues 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 leagues league NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Three hundred leagues ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1090-pg29021-part15:e3:o4:1 # text = Three hundred leagues 1 Three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 compound _ _ 2 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 leagues league NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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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