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title: Bro, how long was that muslin, like wicked long? — Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 3… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, how long was that muslin, like wicked long? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1452 «Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 39: the Prince fetches muslin from a millet seed and is sent for a princess» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of e
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# Test 4 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 39: the Prince fetche…

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Bro, how long was that muslin, like wicked long?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Bro · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** long muslin

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1452 «Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 39: the Prince fetches muslin from a millet seed and is sent for a princess» 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/1452-pg503-part39/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1452-pg503-part39:t4:1
# text = Bro, how long was that muslin, like wicked long?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	long	long	ADJ	RB	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	muslin	muslin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Bro | long muslin |  |  |  |  | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Four hundred ells

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1452-pg503-part39:t4:o1:1
# text = Four hundred ells
1	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	ells	ell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Five hundred ells

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1452-pg503-part39:t4:o2:1
# text = Five hundred ells
1	Five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	ells	ell	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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Ten ells

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1452-pg503-part39:t4:o3:1
# text = Ten ells
1	Ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	ells	ell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Two ells

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1452-pg503-part39:t4:o4:1
# text = Two ells
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	ells	ell	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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