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title: How long before the lady gets all sad, like? — pg641, Elsa, part 3: Elsa stays with t… · tree and pragmatics
description: How long before the lady gets all sad, like? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 1752 «pg641, Elsa, part 3: Elsa stays with the lady, learns the thirteenth dish is forbidden, and must leave the house» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each 
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# Test 9 · ★ · pg641, Elsa, part 3: Elsa stays with the lady, learns the…

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How long before the lady gets all sad, like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** get

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1752 «pg641, Elsa, part 3: Elsa stays with the lady, learns the thirteenth dish is forbidden, and must leave the house» 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/1752-pg641-part3/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1752-pg641-part3:t9:1
# text = How long before the lady gets all sad, like?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
3	before	before	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
6	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	all	all	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present |  |  |  |  | before the lady | long, sad *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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ten years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1752-pg641-part3:t9:o1:1
# 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 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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nine years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1752-pg641-part3:t9:o2:1
# text = nine years
1	nine	nine	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 {#o3}

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five years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1752-pg641-part3:t9:o3:1
# text = five years
1	five	five	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 4 {#o4}

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three years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1752-pg641-part3:t9: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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