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title: Which phrase best describes the length of the Marionette's imprisonm… — Pinocchio, The Field of Wonders, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which phrase best describes the length of the Marionette's imprisonment? Exam question 3 of lesson 1397 «Pinocchio, The Field of Wonders, part 10: Pinocchio is robbed of his gold and sent to prison» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question
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# Exam question 3 · Pinocchio, The Field of Wonders, part 10: Pinocchio is rob…

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Which phrase best describes the length of the Marionette's imprisonment?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** phrase, Marionette · **What happens:** describe, imprison · **To what, where:** length

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 1397 «Pinocchio, The Field of Wonders, part 10: Pinocchio is robbed of his gold and sent to prison» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/1397-pg500-part10/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1397-pg500-part10:e3:1
# text = Which phrase best describes the length of the Marionette's imprisonment?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	phrase	phrase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	best	well	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	4	advmod	_	_
4	describes	describe	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Marionette	Marionette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	imprisonment	imprisonment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **describe** | present | which phrase | the length of the Marionette's imprisonment |  |  |  | well *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent length=Theme |
| 2 | **imprison** |  | the Marionette |  |  |  |  |  | nom imprisonment «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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Four months of confinement in a damp cell

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1397-pg500-part10:e3:o1:1
# text = Four months of confinement in a damp cell
1	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod:unmarked	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	confinement	confinement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	damp	damp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	cell	cell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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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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Four months of confinement

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1397-pg500-part10:e3:o2:1
# text = Four months of confinement
1	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	confinement	confinement	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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Four months of confinement and hard labour in the prison

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1397-pg500-part10:e3:o3:1
# text = Four months of confinement and hard labour in the prison
1	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	confinement	confinement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	labour	labour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Three months of exile

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1397-pg500-part10:e3:o4:1
# text = Three months of exile
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	exile	exile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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