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title: sus, how many years had passed since the emperor was a young lad? — Roumanian Tales, Petru and the Fairy o… · tree and pragmatics
description: sus, how many years had passed since the emperor was a young lad? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1779 «Roumanian Tales, Petru and the Fairy of the Dawn, part 30: Petru meets a seven-headed dragon, fails, gets a magic horse, and resists the copper flowers» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with th
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# Test 11 · ★ · Roumanian Tales, Petru and the Fairy of the Dawn, part 30:…

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sus, how many years had passed since the emperor was a young lad?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** sus · **What happens:** pass, be · **To what, where:** many years, young lad

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1779 «Roumanian Tales, Petru and the Fairy of the Dawn, part 30: Petru meets a seven-headed dragon, fails, gets a magic horse, and resists the copper flowers» 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/1779-pg641-part30/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1779-pg641-part30:t11:1
# text = sus, how many years had passed since the emperor was a young lad?
1	sus	sus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	conj	_	_
8	since	since	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past · perfect · passive |  | many years |  |  | since the emperor |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory |
| 2 | **is a** | past | sus | a young lad |  |  |  |  | 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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ten years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1779-pg641-part30:t11: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 {#o2}

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forty years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1779-pg641-part30:t11:o2:1
# text = forty years
1	forty	forty	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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fifty years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1779-pg641-part30:t11:o3:1
# text = fifty years
1	fifty	fifty	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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a year

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1779-pg641-part30:t11:o4:1
# text = a year
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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