---
title: Ngl, how long was the mole's wedding countdown? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina: sh… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ngl, how long was the mole's wedding countdown? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1742 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina: she escapes the mole and weds a flower prince» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wr
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1742-pg640-part66/t4/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina: sh…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1742-pg640-part66/) / t4

# Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina: she escapes the mole a…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Ngl, how long was the mole's wedding countdown?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** wedding countdown

<!-- .vabout -->
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1742 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina: she escapes the mole and weds a flower prince» 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/1742-pg640-part66/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1742-pg640-part66:t4:1
# text = Ngl, how long was the mole's wedding countdown?
1	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	mole	mole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	countdown	countdown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the mole's wedding countdown |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a week

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1742-pg640-part66:t4:o1:1
# text = a week
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
two days

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1742-pg640-part66:t4:o2:1
# text = two days
1	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
four weeks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1742-pg640-part66:t4:o3:1
# text = four weeks
1	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
six months

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1742-pg640-part66:t4:o4:1
# text = six months
1	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina: sh…, test 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1742-pg640-part66/t3/)
- next →: [Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina: sh…, test 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1742-pg640-part66/t5/)
- ↑ back to [Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina: she escapes the mole and weds a flower prince](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1742-pg640-part66/)