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title: Which period of time did the king grant the youth to accomplish the… — The Violet Fairy Book, How the Dragon… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which period of time did the king grant the youth to accomplish the final task? Exam question 4 of lesson 1613 «The Violet Fairy Book, How the Dragon Was Tricked, part 2: a clever youth tricks a king, a shepherd and a dragon» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and
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# Exam question 4 · The Violet Fairy Book, How the Dragon Was Tricked, part 2:…

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Which period of time did the king grant the youth to accomplish the final task?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** period, king · **What happens:** do, grant, accomplish · **To what, where:** youth, final task

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 1613 «The Violet Fairy Book, How the Dragon Was Tricked, part 2: a clever youth tricks a king, a shepherd and a dragon» 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/1613-pg5615-part2/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1613-pg5615-part2:e4:1
# text = Which period of time did the king grant the youth to accomplish the final task?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	did	do	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	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	grant	grant	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	accomplish	accomplish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	final	final	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	task	task	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | which period of time |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **grant** | present | the king | the youth |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent youth=Theme |
| 3 | **accomplish** | to-infinitive | the king *not said here* | the final task |  |  |  |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Eventuality |

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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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A year

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1613-pg5615-part2:e4:o1:1
# text = A year
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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Two years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1613-pg5615-part2:e4:o2:1
# text = Two years
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	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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Three years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1613-pg5615-part2:e4:o3:1
# text = Three years
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	years	year	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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Five months

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1613-pg5615-part2:e4:o4:1
# text = Five months
1	Five	five	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.

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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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