--- title: Bro, how long had that tiger had the thorn in his foot? — Indian Fairy Tales, How the Raja's Son… · tree and pragmatics description: Bro, how long had that tiger had the thorn in his foot? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 1818 «Indian Fairy Tales, How the Raja's Son won the Princess Labam, part 1: the prince disobeys his mother and sets out to find Labam» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1818-pg7128-part2/t9/) [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/) / [Indian Fairy Tales, How the Raja's Son…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1818-pg7128-part2/) / t9 # Test 9 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, How the Raja's Son won the Princess La… Bro, how long had that tiger had the thorn in his foot? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Bro, tiger · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** thorn, foot This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1818 «Indian Fairy Tales, How the Raja's Son won the Princess Labam, part 1: the prince disobeys his mother and sets out to find Labam» 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/1818-pg7128-part2/#t9). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1818-pg7128-part2:t9:1 # text = Bro, how long had that tiger had the thorn in his foot? 1 Bro bro NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 4 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 5 advmod _ _ 5 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 that that SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 7 tiger tiger NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 thorn thorn NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | Bro | | | | | long *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **have** | past | tiger | the thorn | | tiger's foot | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thorn=Patient | 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} Two years ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1818-pg7128-part2:t9:o1:1 # text = Two years 1 Two two 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 {#o2} Ten days ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1818-pg7128-part2:t9:o2:1 # text = Ten days 1 Ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Twelve years ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1818-pg7128-part2:t9:o3:1 # text = Twelve years 1 Twelve twelve 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 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4} Since the tiger was a young cub ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1818-pg7128-part2:t9:o4:1 # text = Since the tiger was a young cub 1 Since since ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 tiger tiger NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 cub cub NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | | a young cub | | | since the tiger | | tree rules | **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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