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title: Wha's the quarry depth, roughly? — Celtic Fairy Tales, The Three Crowns,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wha's the quarry depth, roughly? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1292 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Three Crowns, part 17: the youngest prince goes down the well and the pair escape the giants» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option;
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# Test 12 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Three Crowns, part 17: the younges…

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Wha's the quarry depth, roughly?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Wha · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** quarry depth

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1292 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Three Crowns, part 17: the youngest prince goes down the well and the pair escape the giants» 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/1292-pg3454-part17/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1292-pg3454-part17:t12:1
# text = Wha's the quarry depth, roughly?
1	Wha	Wha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	quarry	quarry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	depth	depth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	roughly	roughly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Wha | the quarry depth |  |  |  | roughly *property* | tree rules |

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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 {#o1}

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Half a mile deep

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1292-pg3454-part17:t12:o1:1
# text = Half a mile deep
1	Half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	3	det:predet	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	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 quarter of a mile

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1292-pg3454-part17:t12:o2:1
# text = A quarter of a mile
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	quarter	quarter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Roughly a quarter of a mile straight down

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1292-pg3454-part17:t12:o3:1
# text = Roughly a quarter of a mile straight down
1	Roughly	roughly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	quarter	quarter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	down	down	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Ten yards

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1292-pg3454-part17:t12:o4:1
# text = Ten yards
1	Ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	yards	yard	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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