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title: a danish mile is like 4 and a bit english miles, innit — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: a danish mile is like 4 and a bit english miles, innit Test 9 · ★ of lesson 279 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune: the watchman flies to the moon in a wink, and his body dies on the street» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the quest
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# Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune: the watchman…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a danish mile is like 4 and a bit english miles, innit

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** danish mile, bit · **What happens:** be, mile

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 279 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune: the watchman flies to the moon in a wink, and his body dies on the street» 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/279-pg1597-part6/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:279-pg1597-part6:t9:1
# text = a danish mile is like 4 and a bit english miles, innit
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	danish	danish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	english	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a danish mile |  |  |  |  | like 4 and english miles and innit | tree rules |
| 2 | **mile** |  | a bit |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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 -->
nah, it's more like 9 and a half English miles, a proper long walk

<!-- fold The tree, 15 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:279-pg1597-part6:t9:o1:1
# text = nah, it's more like 9 and a half English miles, a proper long walk
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	7	conj	_	_
11	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	walk	walk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | it |  |  |  |  | like 9 and a half and English miles and a proper long walk | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, nearly 5 and a half

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:279-pg1597-part6:t9:o2:1
# text = yeah, nearly 5 and a half
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	4	conj	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, nearly 4 and three quarters English miles, roughly the walk to town

<!-- fold The tree, 13 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:279-pg1597-part6:t9:o3:1
# text = yeah, nearly 4 and three quarters English miles, roughly the walk to town
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	quarters	quarter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
8	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	roughly	roughly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	walk	walk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, nearly 4 and three quarters

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:279-pg1597-part6:t9:o4:1
# text = yeah, nearly 4 and three quarters
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	quarters	quarter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
```

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

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