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title: test: How long's the Bull chilling before he can move, like? — Norse Tales, Kari Woodengown, part 46:… · tree and pragmatics
description: test: How long's the Bull chilling before he can move, like? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 1549 «Norse Tales, Kari Woodengown, part 46: the Bull's death, the cruel Prince, and Kari's glove and towel» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of 
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# Test 6 · ★ · Norse Tales, Kari Woodengown, part 46: the Bull's death, t…

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test: How long's the Bull chilling before he can move, like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** he · **What happens:** be, move · **To what, where:** Bull chilling

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1549 «Norse Tales, Kari Woodengown, part 46: the Bull's death, the cruel Prince, and Kari's glove and towel» 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/1549-pg540-part46/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1549-pg540-part46:t6:1
# text = test: How long's the Bull chilling before he can move, like?
1	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
3	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Bull	bull	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	chilling	chilling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
9	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the Bull chilling |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **move** | can | he | the Bull chilling *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent chilling=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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three weeks, give or take a day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1549-pg540-part46:t6:o1:1
# text = three weeks, give or take a day
1	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | infinitive | three weeks |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **take** | infinitive | three weeks *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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three long weeks and more

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1549-pg540-part46:t6:o2:1
# text = three long weeks and more
1	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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two months

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1549-pg540-part46:t6:o3:1
# text = two months
1	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	months	month	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}

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three weeks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1549-pg540-part46:t6:o4:1
# text = three weeks
1	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	weeks	week	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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