--- title: So the Prince had to stay a bird for how long? — Grimm's Household Tales, The Iron Stov… · tree and pragmatics description: So the Prince had to stay a bird for how long? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1685 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Iron Stove, part 1: the princess promises help and loses her way home» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1685-pg640-part9/t4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Grimm's Household Tales, The Iron Stov…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1685-pg640-part9/) / t4 # Test 4 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Iron Stove, part 1: the princ… So the Prince had to stay a bird for how long? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Prince · **What happens:** have, stay · **To what, where:** bird This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1685 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Iron Stove, part 1: the princess promises help and loses her way home» 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/1685-pg640-part9/#t4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1685-pg640-part9:t4:1 # text = So the Prince had to stay a bird for how long? 1 So so ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 11 advmod _ _ 11 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | the Prince | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **stay** | to-infinitive | the Prince *not said here* | a bird | | | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme bird=Location | 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} Three years, mate ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1685-pg640-part9:t4:o1:1 # text = Three years, mate 1 Three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Three months, mate ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1685-pg640-part9:t4:o2:1 # text = Three months, mate 1 Three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 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 _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Three weeks, mate ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1685-pg640-part9:t4:o3:1 # text = Three weeks, mate 1 Three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Three days, mate ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1685-pg640-part9:t4:o4:1 # text = Three days, mate 1 Three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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