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title: wait, how long before the dad kicked it after the bath thing? — Arabian Nights, Noureddin and the Beau… · tree and pragmatics
description: wait, how long before the dad kicked it after the bath thing? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 207 «Arabian Nights, Noureddin and the Beautiful Persian, part 47: Noureddin's friends desert him and the Persian is put up for sale» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmati
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# Test 2 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Noureddin and the Beautiful Persian, part…

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wait, how long before the dad kicked it after the bath thing?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, dad · **What happens:** wait, kick · **To what, where:** it

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 207 «Arabian Nights, Noureddin and the Beautiful Persian, part 47: Noureddin's friends desert him and the Persian is put up for sale» 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/207-pg128-part47/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:207-pg128-part47:t2:1
# text = wait, how long before the dad kicked it after the bath thing?
1	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	_
5	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	kicked	kick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	after	after	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **kick** | past | the dad | it |  |  | after the bath thing |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Somewhere around five years after that, no cap

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:207-pg128-part47:t2:o1:1
# text = Somewhere around five years after that, no cap
1	Somewhere	somewhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	0	root	_	_
2	around	around	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	after	after	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
9	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
About a month later

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:207-pg128-part47:t2:o2:1
# text = About a month later
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Over a year later, fr

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:207-pg128-part47:t2:o3:1
# text = Over a year later, fr
1	Over	over	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Maybe two years, idk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:207-pg128-part47:t2:o4:1
# text = Maybe two years, idk
1	Maybe	maybe	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	idk	idk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

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