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title: how old do gnomes get? — Fairy Tales, Rübezahl, part 50: the gn… · tree and pragmatics
description: how old do gnomes get? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1249 «Fairy Tales, Rübezahl, part 50: the gnome sees men settle his hills and serves three masters» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 11 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Rübezahl, part 50: the gnome sees men settle…

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how old do gnomes get?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** old · **What happens:** get

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1249 «Fairy Tales, Rübezahl, part 50: the gnome sees men settle his hills and serves three masters» 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/1249-pg3282-part50/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1249-pg3282-part50:t11:1
# text = how old do gnomes get?
1	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	nsubj	_	_
3	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	gnomes	gnome	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present · do-support | old |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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a while

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1249-pg3282-part50:t11:o1:1
# text = a while
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	while	while	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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like 80 years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1249-pg3282-part50:t11:o2:1
# text = like 80 years
1	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
2	80	80	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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around three centuries

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1249-pg3282-part50:t11:o3:1
# text = around three centuries
1	around	around	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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many hundreds of years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1249-pg3282-part50:t11:o4:1
# text = many hundreds of years
1	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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