--- title: How long did the mantle hang about, like? — Irish Fairy Tales, The Horned Women: a… · tree and pragmatics description: How long did the mantle hang about, like? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 1988 «Irish Fairy Tales, The Horned Women: a night of witches and a sieve of water» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1988-pg7885-part7/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/) / [Irish Fairy Tales, The Horned Women: a…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1988-pg7885-part7/) / t9 # Test 9 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, The Horned Women: a night of witches an… How long did the mantle hang about, like? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mantle · **What happens:** hang about This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1988 «Irish Fairy Tales, The Horned Women: a night of witches and a sieve of water» 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/1988-pg7885-part7/#t9). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1988-pg7885-part7:t9:1 # text = How long did the mantle hang about, like? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 6 advmod _ _ 3 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 mantle mantle NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 hang hang VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 about about ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 9 like like ADP IN _ 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hang about** | past · do-support | the mantle | | | | | about, long *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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} Forever, like, mad ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1988-pg7885-part7:t9:o1:1 # text = Forever, like, mad 1 Forever forever ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 like like INTJ UH _ 1 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 5 mad mad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2} Five hundred years, mad, through every king and every flood in the country ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1988-pg7885-part7:t9:o2:1 # text = Five hundred years, mad, through every king and every flood in the country 1 Five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 compound _ _ 2 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 mad mad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 through through ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 9 det _ _ 9 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 12 det _ _ 12 flood flood NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Seven hundred years, mad ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1988-pg7885-part7:t9:o3:1 # text = Seven hundred years, mad 1 Seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 compound _ _ 2 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 mad mad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Five hundred years, mad ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1988-pg7885-part7:t9:o4:1 # text = Five hundred years, mad 1 Five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 compound _ _ 2 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 mad mad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 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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