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title: Subsequent to the market visit, for what duration did her affliction… — English Fairy Tales, Dame Goody, the p… · tree and pragmatics
description: Subsequent to the market visit, for what duration did her affliction persist? Exam question 3 of lesson 1974 «English Fairy Tales, Dame Goody, the pixy's ointment: a stolen look that costs an eye» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question a
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# Exam question 3 · English Fairy Tales, Dame Goody, the pixy's ointment: a st…

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Subsequent to the market visit, for what duration did her affliction persist?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** affliction, duration · **What happens:** persist, afflict

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 1974 «English Fairy Tales, Dame Goody, the pixy's ointment: a stolen look that costs an eye» 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/1974-pg7439-part33/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1974-pg7439-part33:e3:1
# text = Subsequent to the market visit, for what duration did her affliction persist?
1	Subsequent	subsequent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	visit	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	obl	_	_
9	duration	duration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	affliction	affliction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	persist	persist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **persist** | past · do-support | duration's affliction |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **afflict** |  | duration |  |  |  |  |  | nom affliction «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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for the rest of the year

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1974-pg7439-part33:e3:o1:1
# text = for the rest of the year
1	for	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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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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until the day of her death

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1974-pg7439-part33:e3:o2:1
# text = until the day of her death
1	until	until	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** |  | her *= she* |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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for the rest of her life and every day after

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1974-pg7439-part33:e3:o3:1
# text = for the rest of her life and every day after
1	for	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
10	after	after	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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until the end of all her days and beyond

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1974-pg7439-part33:e3:o4:1
# text = until the end of all her days and beyond
1	until	until	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	beyond	beyond	ADV	RB	_	7	conj	_	_
```

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

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