--- title: Bruv, how long was the lad nicked for, innit? — Hauff's Fairy Tales, The Dwarf Nose, p… · tree and pragmatics description: Bruv, how long was the lad nicked for, innit? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 1790 «Hauff's Fairy Tales, The Dwarf Nose, part 41: Mother calls Jem a dwarf, father forgets him» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1790-pg641-part41/t2/) [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/) / [Hauff's Fairy Tales, The Dwarf Nose, p…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1790-pg641-part41/) / t2 # Test 2 · ★ · Hauff's Fairy Tales, The Dwarf Nose, part 41: Mother calls… Bruv, how long was the lad nicked for, innit? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** be, nick, innit · **To what, where:** lad This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1790 «Hauff's Fairy Tales, The Dwarf Nose, part 41: Mother calls Jem a dwarf, father forgets him» 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/1790-pg641-part41/#t2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1790-pg641-part41:t2:1 # text = Bruv, how long was the lad nicked for, innit? 1 Bruv Bruv PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 3 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 4 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 7 advmod _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 lad lad NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ 8 nicked nick VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 11 innit innit VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | | the lad | | | | long *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **nick** | participle | | the lad *not said here* | | | | | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **innit** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | Bruv *vocative* | tree rules | 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} nine years ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1790-pg641-part41:t2:o1:1 # text = nine years 1 nine nine 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 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} seven years ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1790-pg641-part41:t2:o2:1 # text = seven years 1 seven seven 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 {#o3} seven long years, innit ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1790-pg641-part41:t2:o3:1 # text = seven long years, innit 1 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 2 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 innit innit NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} three months ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1790-pg641-part41:t2:o4:1 # text = three months 1 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 months month 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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