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title: yo, how long does the lad have to work for the troll? — Danish Tales, The Witch and the White… · tree and pragmatics
description: yo, how long does the lad have to work for the troll? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1654 «Danish Tales, The Witch and the White Dove: the prince wins back the princess, and the couple escapes the witch» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and
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# Test 12 · ★ · Danish Tales, The Witch and the White Dove: the prince win…

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yo, how long does the lad have to work for the troll?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** lad · **What happens:** have, work

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1654 «Danish Tales, The Witch and the White Dove: the prince wins back the princess, and the couple escapes the witch» 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/1654-pg5615-part43/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1654-pg5615-part43:t12:1
# text = yo, how long does the lad have to work for the troll?
1	yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
5	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	troll	troll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present · do-support | the lad |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **work** | to-infinitive | the lad *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the troll | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for troll=Beneficiary |

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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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seven years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1654-pg5615-part43:t12:o1:1
# text = seven years
1	seven	seven	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 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
until the lad has paid back his father's debt in full

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1654-pg5615-part43:t12:o2:1
# text = until the lad has paid back his father's debt in full
1	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	debt	debt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay back** | present · perfect · passive |  | the lad |  | full |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Recipient debt=Asset |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
until the next harvest of three summers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1654-pg5615-part43:t12:o3:1
# text = until the next harvest of three summers
1	until	until	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	harvest	harvest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	summers	summer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
three years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1654-pg5615-part43:t12:o4:1
# 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.

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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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