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title: Yo, how long was Iwanich meant to mind them horses, fr? — Russian Fairy Tales, Iwanich and the W… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, how long was Iwanich meant to mind them horses, fr? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1716 «Russian Fairy Tales, Iwanich and the Witch's Horses, part 40: the fish, the eagle and the fox help Iwanich get the horses back» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of 
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# Test 1 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, Iwanich and the Witch's Horses, part…

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Yo, how long was Iwanich meant to mind them horses, fr?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** long Iwanich · **What happens:** be, mean, mind · **To what, where:** long Iwanich, them

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1716 «Russian Fairy Tales, Iwanich and the Witch's Horses, part 40: the fish, the eagle and the fox help Iwanich get the horses back» 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/1716-pg640-part40/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1716-pg640-part40:t1:1
# text = Yo, how long was Iwanich meant to mind them horses, fr?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	long	long	ADJ	RB	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	Iwanich	Iwanich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	meant	mean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	mind	mind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | long Iwanich |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | past | long Iwanich |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **mind** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | long Iwanich *not said here* | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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Two weeks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1716-pg640-part40:t1:o1:1
# text = Two weeks
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Ten years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1716-pg640-part40:t1:o2:1
# text = Ten years
1	Ten	ten	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 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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A whole year

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1716-pg640-part40:t1:o3:1
# text = A whole year
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Several seasons

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1716-pg640-part40:t1:o4:1
# text = Several seasons
1	Several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	seasons	season	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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