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title: fr, how long had the tin man been groaning? — Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 5… · tree and pragmatics
description: fr, how long had the tin man been groaning? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 1590 «Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 5: the Scarecrow longs for brains, and the Tin Woodman is freed from rust» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opt
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# Test 6 · ★ · Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 5: the Scarecrow long…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
fr, how long had the tin man been groaning?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** fr · **What happens:** groan

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1590 «Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 5: the Scarecrow longs for brains, and the Tin Woodman is freed from rust» 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/1590-pg55-part5/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1590-pg55-part5:t6:1
# text = fr, how long had the tin man been groaning?
1	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	tin	tin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	aux	_	_
10	groaning	groan	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **groan** | past · perfect · progressive | fr |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
more than a year, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1590-pg55-part5:t6:o1:1
# text = more than a year, mate
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	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
about a month, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1590-pg55-part5:t6:o2:1
# text = about a month, mate
1	about	about	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
more than a year, mate, since the rust set in on his joints

<!-- fold The tree, 13 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1590-pg55-part5:t6:o3:1
# text = more than a year, mate, since the rust set in on his joints
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	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	since	since	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	rust	rust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
11	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	joints	joint	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | participle |  | the rust *not said here* |  | his joints |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in joint=Destination |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
several months, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1590-pg55-part5:t6:o4:1
# text = several months, mate
1	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	mate	mate	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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