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title: did the fight go on forever or what? — Roumanian Fairy Tales, Petru and the F… · tree and pragmatics
description: did the fight go on forever or what? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1783 «Roumanian Fairy Tales, Petru and the Fairy of the Dawn, part 34: Petru beats the giant, takes the magic water, and meets his brothers.» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questio
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# Test 3 · ★ · Roumanian Fairy Tales, Petru and the Fairy of the Dawn, pa…

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did the fight go on forever or what?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** fight · **What happens:** go

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1783 «Roumanian Fairy Tales, Petru and the Fairy of the Dawn, part 34: Petru beats the giant, takes the magic water, and meets his brothers.» 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/1783-pg641-part34/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1783-pg641-part34:t3:1
# text = did the fight go on forever or what?
1	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past · do-support | the fight |  |  |  |  | forever *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Three days and three nights, mate, that's mental

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1783-pg641-part34:t3:o1:1
# text = Three days and three nights, mate, that's mental
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	mental	mental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Three days and three nights |  |  |  |  | mental *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nope, just one night, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1783-pg641-part34:t3:o2:1
# text = Nope, just one night, mate
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Took about a week, mate, that was proper long

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1783-pg641-part34:t3:o3:1
# text = Took about a week, mate, that was proper long
1	Took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	about	about	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	proper	properly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past |  |  |  |  | week | about *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | that |  |  |  |  | long, properly *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, it was over by lunchtime on the first day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1783-pg641-part34:t3:o4:1
# text = Nah, it was over by lunchtime on the first day
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	over	over	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	lunchtime	lunchtime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	amod	_	_
11	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  | day | by lunchtime; over *property* | tree rules |

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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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