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title: Bruv, how long did the king skip hunting after the baby came? — Indian Fairy Tales, Puruna, part 54: t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bruv, how long did the king skip hunting after the baby came? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 1253 «Indian Fairy Tales, Puruna, part 54: the king's hunt and the hermit's prophecy» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's ch
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# Test 2 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Puruna, part 54: the king's hunt and t…

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Bruv, how long did the king skip hunting after the baby came?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** king, baby · **What happens:** do, skip, hunt, come

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1253 «Indian Fairy Tales, Puruna, part 54: the king's hunt and the hermit's prophecy» 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/1253-pg3282-part54/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1253-pg3282-part54:t2:1
# text = Bruv, how long did the king skip hunting after the baby came?
1	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	skip	skip	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
9	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	xcomp	_	_
10	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  | Bruv *vocative*; long *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **skip** | present | the king |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hunt** | gerund | the king *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **come** | past | the baby |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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two long months

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1253-pg3282-part54:t2:o1:1
# text = two long months
1	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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a whole week

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1253-pg3282-part54:t2:o2:1
# text = a whole week
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	week	week	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 {#o3}

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a day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1253-pg3282-part54:t2:o3:1
# text = a day
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	day	day	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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an hour

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1253-pg3282-part54:t2:o4:1
# text = an hour
1	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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