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title: For how many years did the Giant remain with his acquaintance abroad? — Happy Prince, The Nightingale and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: For how many years did the Giant remain with his acquaintance abroad? Exam question 4 of lesson 2034 «Happy Prince, The Nightingale and the Rose: the Nightingale dies singing for a red rose, and the Student throws it away» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pr
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# Exam question 4 · Happy Prince, The Nightingale and the Rose: the Nightingal…

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For how many years did the Giant remain with his acquaintance abroad?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Giant, his · **What happens:** do, remain, acquaint

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 2034 «Happy Prince, The Nightingale and the Rose: the Nightingale dies singing for a red rose, and the Student throws it away» 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/2034-pg902-part4/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2034-pg902-part4:e4:1
# text = For how many years did the Giant remain with his acquaintance abroad?
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
3	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	nsubj	_	_
8	remain	remain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	acquaintance	acquaintance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	abroad	abroad	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  | year |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **remain** | present | the Giant |  |  |  |  | with his acquaintance; abroad *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **acquaint** |  | his *= he* |  |  |  |  |  | nom acquaintance «cognition 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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Twelve

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2034-pg902-part4:e4:o1:1
# text = Twelve
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Four

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2034-pg902-part4:e4:o2:1
# text = Four
1	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Two

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2034-pg902-part4:e4:o3:1
# text = Two
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Seven

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2034-pg902-part4:e4:o4:1
# text = Seven
1	Seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

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