---
title: Wait, how long did Lambikin chill in the corn-bin, proper? — Indian Fairy Tales, Balna, part 5: Lam… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, how long did Lambikin chill in the corn-bin, proper? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1821 «Indian Fairy Tales, Balna, part 5: Lambikin is tricked into a drum and eaten, then the Raja's daughters are starved by a cruel stepmother» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and 
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1821-pg7128-part5/t3/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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, Balna, part 5: Lam…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1821-pg7128-part5/) / t3

# Test 3 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Balna, part 5: Lambikin is tricked int…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Wait, how long did Lambikin chill in the corn-bin, proper?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, Lambikin · **What happens:** wait, chill · **To what, where:** corn bin

<!-- .vabout -->
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1821 «Indian Fairy Tales, Balna, part 5: Lambikin is tricked into a drum and eaten, then the Raja's daughters are starved by a cruel stepmother» 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/1821-pg7128-part5/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1821-pg7128-part5:t3:1
# text = Wait, how long did Lambikin chill in the corn-bin, proper?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	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	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	Lambikin	Lambikin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	chill	chill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | 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 | **chill** | past · do-support | Lambikin |  |  | the corn bin |  | long *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

<!-- .note -->
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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nine days

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1821-pg7128-part5:t3:o1:1
# text = Nine days
1	Nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Two

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1821-pg7128-part5:t3:o2:1
# text = Two
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Seven days

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1821-pg7128-part5:t3:o3:1
# text = Seven days
1	Seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1821-pg7128-part5:t3:o4:1
# text = A day
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Indian Fairy Tales, Balna, part 5: Lam…, test 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1821-pg7128-part5/t2/)
- next →: [Indian Fairy Tales, Balna, part 5: Lam…, test 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1821-pg7128-part5/t4/)
- ↑ back to [Indian Fairy Tales, Balna, part 5: Lambikin is tricked into a drum and eaten, then the Raja's daughters are starved by a cruel stepmother](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1821-pg7128-part5/)

