--- title: Wait, how long did the whale lie across the strait? — Russian Folk-Tales, Vassili and Mark t… · tree and pragmatics description: Wait, how long did the whale lie across the strait? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1755 «Russian Folk-Tales, Vassili and Mark the Rich, part 6: Vassili visits the Serpent King and tricks him out of Mark's ships» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the ques --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1755-pg641-part6/t10/) [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/) / [Russian Folk-Tales, Vassili and Mark t…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1755-pg641-part6/) / t10 # Test 10 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Vassili and Mark the Rich, part 6: Vas… Wait, how long did the whale lie across the strait? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, whale · **What happens:** wait, do, lie · **To what, where:** strait This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1755 «Russian Folk-Tales, Vassili and Mark the Rich, part 6: Vassili visits the Serpent King and tricks him out of Mark's ships» 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/1755-pg641-part6/#t10). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1755-pg641-part6:t10:1 # text = Wait, how long did the whale lie across the strait? 1 Wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 4 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 5 advmod _ _ 5 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 whale whale NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 lie lie VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ _ 9 across across ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 strait strait NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **do** | past | you *not said here* | | | | | long *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **lie** | present | the whale | | | the strait | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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 {#o1} Three years across the whole width of the strait without moving once ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1755-pg641-part6:t10:o1:1 # text = Three years across the whole width of the strait without moving once 1 Three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 across across ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 width width NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 strait strait NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 without without SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 11 moving move VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 acl _ _ 12 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 11 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **move** | gerund | the strait *not said here* | | | | | once *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2} Four years ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1755-pg641-part6:t10:o2:1 # text = Four years 1 Four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Three years ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1755-pg641-part6:t10:o3:1 # text = Three years 1 Three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Five years ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1755-pg641-part6:t10:o4:1 # text = Five years 1 Five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` 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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