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title: How long did the magician take to crack the code? — Fairy Tales (pg640), The Magic Ring, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: How long did the magician take to crack the code? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1681 «Fairy Tales (pg640), The Magic Ring, part 5: the youth steals the ring and gets ready to fight the Dragon» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each op
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# Test 7 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg640), The Magic Ring, part 5: the youth ste…

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How long did the magician take to crack the code?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** magician · **What happens:** take, crack · **To what, where:** code

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1681 «Fairy Tales (pg640), The Magic Ring, part 5: the youth steals the ring and gets ready to fight the Dragon» 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/1681-pg640-part5/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1681-pg640-part5:t7:1
# text = How long did the magician take to crack the code?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	crack	crack	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	code	code	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past · do-support | the magician |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn require-103 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition |
| 2 | **crack** | to-infinitive | the magician *not said here* | the code |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location code=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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Nah, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1681-pg640-part5:t7:o1:1
# text = Nah, mate
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	mate	mate	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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Seven weeks, innit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1681-pg640-part5:t7:o2:1
# text = Seven weeks, innit
1	Seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Ages, innit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1681-pg640-part5:t7:o3:1
# text = Ages, innit
1	Ages	Age	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Ten days, bruv

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1681-pg640-part5:t7:o4:1
# text = Ten days, bruv
1	Ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
```

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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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