--- title: What was the length of Gangazara's confinement in the underground ce… — Indian Fairy Tales, Gangazara, part 15… · tree and pragmatics description: What was the length of Gangazara's confinement in the underground cell as the text describes it? Exam question 4 of lesson 1831 «Indian Fairy Tales, Gangazara, part 15: the goldsmith betrays Gangazara, and the animal kings try to save him from the dungeon» of the books course of Mova's primary schoo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1831-pg7128-part15/e4/) [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, Gangazara, part 15…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1831-pg7128-part15/) / e4 # Exam question 4 · Indian Fairy Tales, Gangazara, part 15: the goldsmith betr… What was the length of Gangazara's confinement in the underground cell as the text describes it? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Gangazara · **What happens:** be, describe, confine · **To what, where:** length, text, underground cell This is exam question 4 of lesson 1831 «Indian Fairy Tales, Gangazara, part 15: the goldsmith betrays Gangazara, and the animal kings try to save him from the dungeon» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/1831-pg7128-part15/#e4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1831-pg7128-part15:e4:1 # text = What was the length of Gangazara's confinement in the underground cell as the text describes it? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 length length NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 Gangazara Gangazara PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 confinement confinement NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 underground underground ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 cell cell NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 13 as as ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 text text NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 describes describe VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | | the length | | | | of Gangazara's confinement | tree rules | | 2 | **describe** | present | | text | | the underground cell as the text | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 3 | **confine** | | Gangazara | | | | | | nom confinement «state transitive»: poss=agent | 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} Ten years ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1831-pg7128-part15:e4:o1:1 # text = Ten years 1 Ten ten 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Ten complete years ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1831-pg7128-part15:e4:o2:1 # text = Ten complete years 1 Ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 2 complete complete ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Seven complete years ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1831-pg7128-part15:e4:o3:1 # text = Seven complete years 1 Seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 2 complete complete ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Nearly ten long years ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1831-pg7128-part15:e4:o4:1 # text = Nearly ten long years 1 Nearly nearly ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 3 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 years year 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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