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title: fr, how long was the king stuck in a fever? — Lang's Fairy Book, The White Slipper,… · tree and pragmatics
description: fr, how long was the king stuck in a fever? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1196 «Lang's Fairy Book, The White Slipper, part 62: the king loses his slipper and a youth offers a cure» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's
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# Test 4 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, The White Slipper, part 62: the king lo…

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fr, how long was the king stuck in a fever?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be, stick · **To what, where:** king, fever

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1196 «Lang's Fairy Book, The White Slipper, part 62: the king loses his slipper and a youth offers a cure» 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/1196-pg3027-part62/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1196-pg3027-part62:t4:1
# text = fr, how long was the king stuck in a fever?
1	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	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	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
8	stuck	stick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	fever	fever	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	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 king |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **stick** | participle |  | the king *not said here* |  | a fever |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in fever=Destination |

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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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like three whole days without waking up once, sweating and mumbling the entire time

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1196-pg3027-part62:t4:o1:1
# text = like three whole days without waking up once, sweating and mumbling the entire time
1	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	waking	wake	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	sweating	sweat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	mumbling	mumble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	entire	entire	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wake up** | gerund | three whole days |  |  |  |  | once *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **sweat** | gerund | three whole days *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **mumble** *speech: other* | gerund | three whole days *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a whole night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1196-pg3027-part62:t4:o2:1
# text = a whole night
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
like three days straight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1196-pg3027-part62:t4:o3:1
# text = like three days straight
1	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
like almost two weeks total

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1196-pg3027-part62:t4:o4:1
# text = like almost two weeks total
1	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
2	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	total	total	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

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