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title: Wait, the duke gave Jem how long before he got chopped? — Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Long Nose,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, the duke gave Jem how long before he got chopped? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1792 «Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Long Nose, part 43: the goose finds the magic herb for the pasty» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mo
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# Test 3 · ★ · Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Long Nose, part 43: the goose f…

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Wait, the duke gave Jem how long before he got chopped?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, duke · **What happens:** wait, give, chop · **To what, where:** Jem, duke

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1792 «Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Long Nose, part 43: the goose finds the magic herb for the pasty» 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/1792-pg641-part43/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1792-pg641-part43:t3:1
# text = Wait, the duke gave Jem how long before he got chopped?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	duke	duke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	Jem	Jem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	iobj	_	_
7	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
8	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
9	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	chopped	chop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 | **give** | past | the duke |  | Jem |  |  | long *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jem=Theme |
| 3 | **chop** | past · passive |  | duke |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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twenty-two hours, dead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1792-pg641-part43:t3:o1:1
# text = twenty-two hours, dead
1	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	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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twenty-four hours, dead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1792-pg641-part43:t3:o2:1
# text = twenty-four hours, dead
1	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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twenty-four hours, dead, no extra time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1792-pg641-part43:t3:o3:1
# text = twenty-four hours, dead, no extra time
1	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
9	extra	extra	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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like three days or something, dead serious

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1792-pg641-part43:t3:o4:1
# text = like three days or something, dead serious
1	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	serious	serious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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