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title: deadass, how long had the Cricket been living there? — Pinocchio, Pinocchio and the Talking C… · tree and pragmatics
description: deadass, how long had the Cricket been living there? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1389 «Pinocchio, Pinocchio and the Talking Cricket, part 2: the puppet runs off and the Cricket is killed» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each optio
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# Test 7 · ★ · Pinocchio, Pinocchio and the Talking Cricket, part 2: the…

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deadass, how long had the Cricket been living there?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** deadass, Cricket · **What happens:** have, live

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1389 «Pinocchio, Pinocchio and the Talking Cricket, part 2: the puppet runs off and the Cricket is killed» 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/1389-pg500-part2/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1389-pg500-part2:t7:1
# text = deadass, how long had the Cricket been living there?
1	deadass	deadass	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	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	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Cricket	cricket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	aux	_	_
9	living	live	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	ccomp	_	_
10	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | deadass |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** | participle · progressive | the Cricket |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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for longer than anyone in the village can remember

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1389-pg500-part2:t7:o1:1
# text = for longer than anyone in the village can remember
1	for	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
3	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
4	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	9	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | can | anyone |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
about twenty years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1389-pg500-part2:t7:o2:1
# text = about twenty years
1	about	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	twenty	twenty	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 3 {#o3}

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for more than a hundred years before the puppet came

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1389-pg500-part2:t7:o3:1
# text = for more than a hundred years before the puppet came
1	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	5	advmod	_	_
3	than	than	ADP	IN	_	2	fixed	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
7	before	before	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	puppet	puppet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past |  |  |  |  | year |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
more than a hundred years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1389-pg500-part2:t7:o4:1
# text = more than a hundred years
1	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	4	advmod	_	_
2	than	than	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	years	year	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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