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title: Be honest, how long did the dad wait before getting remarried? — Japanese Fairy Tales, The Mirror, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Be honest, how long did the dad wait before getting remarried? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 1361 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Mirror, part 21: a dying mother gives her daughter a mirror, and a stepmother accuses the girl» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of
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# Test 2 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Mirror, part 21: a dying mother…

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Be honest, how long did the dad wait before getting remarried?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, dad · **What happens:** be, wait, remarry

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1361 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Mirror, part 21: a dying mother gives her daughter a mirror, and a stepmother accuses the girl» 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/1361-pg4018-part21/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1361-pg4018-part21:t2:1
# text = Be honest, how long did the dad wait before getting remarried?
1	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	cop	_	_
2	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
5	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
6	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
10	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	getting	get	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	remarried	remarry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | honest *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **wait** | past · do-support | the dad |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **remarry** | gerund · passive | the dad *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V» |

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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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around three years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1361-pg4018-part21:t2:o1:1
# text = around three years
1	around	around	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|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 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a whole year, maybe more, till the relatives sorted it out

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1361-pg4018-part21:t2:o2:1
# text = a whole year, maybe more, till the relatives sorted it out
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	maybe	maybe	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	till	till	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	relatives	relative	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	sorted	sort	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sort out** | past | the relatives | it |  |  | year |  | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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about two years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1361-pg4018-part21:t2:o3:1
# text = about two years
1	about	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|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 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1361-pg4018-part21:t2:o4:1
# text = a whole year
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	year	year	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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