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title: Yo, how long did Jack get to find it? — Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golde… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, how long did Jack get to find it? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1954 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Snuff-box, part 13: Jack wins a castle, loses it, and sets out to find it» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option
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# Test 8 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Snuff-box, part 13…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yo, how long did Jack get to find it?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Jack · **What happens:** get, find · **To what, where:** it

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1954 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Snuff-box, part 13: Jack wins a castle, loses it, and sets out to find it» 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/1954-pg7439-part13/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1954-pg7439-part13:t8:1
# text = Yo, how long did Jack get to find it?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	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	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past · do-support | Jack |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **find** | to-infinitive | Jack *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a twelvemonths and a day, and not a minute more, bruv

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1954-pg7439-part13:t8:o1:1
# text = a twelvemonths and a day, and not a minute more, bruv
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	twelvemonths	twelvemonth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod:poss	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
11	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
13	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
seven whole years and a day before the king would cut his head off

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1954-pg7439-part13:t8:o2:1
# text = seven whole years and a day before the king would cut his head off
1	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	before	before	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	off	off	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut off** | would | seven whole years before the king and a day | king's head |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
twelve months and a day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1954-pg7439-part13:t8:o3:1
# text = twelve months and a day
1	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a twelvemonths and a day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1954-pg7439-part13:t8:o4:1
# text = a twelvemonths and a day
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	twelvemonths	twelvemonth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

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