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title: With reference to the passage, for what precise duration was the egg… — pg641, Dotterine, part 18: a magic egg… · tree and pragmatics
description: With reference to the passage, for what precise duration was the egg required to be kept in a warm place? Exam question 1 of lesson 1767 «pg641, Dotterine, part 18: a magic egg grows into a girl, and the queen dies» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatic
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# Exam question 1 · pg641, Dotterine, part 18: a magic egg grows into a girl,…

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With reference to the passage, for what precise duration was the egg required to be kept in a warm place?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** reference · **What happens:** be, require, keep · **To what, where:** egg, warm place

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 1767 «pg641, Dotterine, part 18: a magic egg grows into a girl, and the queen dies» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/1767-pg641-part18/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1767-pg641-part18:e1:1
# text = With reference to the passage, for what precise duration was the egg required to be kept in a warm place?
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	reference	reference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	nsubj	_	_
9	precise	precise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	duration	duration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
14	required	require	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	xcomp	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | reference to the passage and the egg |  |  |  |  | for the egg | tree rules |
| 2 | **require** | participle |  | the egg *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition |
| 3 | **keep** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  | a warm place |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: in place=Location |

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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 {#o1}

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nine months

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1767-pg641-part18:e1:o1:1
# text = nine months
1	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	months	month	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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three months

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1767-pg641-part18:e1:o2:1
# text = three months
1	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	months	month	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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one full year

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1767-pg641-part18:e1:o3:1
# text = one full year
1	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	full	full	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 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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until the child was old enough to walk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1767-pg641-part18:e1:o4:1
# text = until the child was old enough to walk
1	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the child |  |  |  |  | enough, old *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **walk** | to-infinitive | the child *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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