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title: Ayy, how long did the younger son stay in the whale? — Russian Folk-Tales, The Wondrous Story… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ayy, how long did the younger son stay in the whale? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1130 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Wondrous Story of Ivan Golik and the Serpents, part 36: Ivan Golik joins the prince and saves the mice» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of th
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# Test 12 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Wondrous Story of Ivan Golik and t…

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Ayy, how long did the younger son stay in the whale?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** younger son · **What happens:** stay

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1130 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Wondrous Story of Ivan Golik and the Serpents, part 36: Ivan Golik joins the prince and saves the mice» 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/1130-pg29672-part36/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1130-pg29672-part36:t12:1
# text = Ayy, how long did the younger son stay in the whale?
1	Ayy	Ayy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
8	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	whale	whale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | past · do-support | the younger son |  |  |  |  | in the whale; Ayy *vocative*; long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in whale=Location |

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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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maybe a whole year

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1130-pg29672-part36:t12:o1:1
# text = maybe a whole year
1	maybe	maybe	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	year	year	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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maybe a month or so

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1130-pg29672-part36:t12:o2:1
# text = maybe a month or so
1	maybe	maybe	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	1	conj	_	_
```

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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:1130-pg29672-part36:t12: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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about six months

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1130-pg29672-part36:t12:o4:1
# text = about six months
1	about	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	months	month	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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