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description: Was the gathering just one short evening, or a whole week? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 412 «Russian Folk-Tales, Marusia, part 4: Marusia follows a thread to a church, sees her sweetheart's terrible secret, and learns that her parents will die» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the depende
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# Test 13 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Marusia, part 4: Marusia follows a thr…

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Was the gathering just one short evening, or a whole week?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** gathering

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 412 «Russian Folk-Tales, Marusia, part 4: Marusia follows a thread to a church, sees her sweetheart's terrible secret, and learns that her parents will die» 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/412-pg22373-part4/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:412-pg22373-part4:t13:1
# text = Was the gathering just one short evening, or a whole week?
1	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	gathering	gathering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	csubj	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
6	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the gathering |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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Not just one evening but the entire season of harvest and festivals

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:412-pg22373-part4:t13:o1:1
# text = Not just one evening but the entire season of harvest and festivals
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
2	just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	entire	entire	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	harvest	harvest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	festivals	festival	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
```

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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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A whole week or even longer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:412-pg22373-part4:t13:o2:1
# text = A whole week or even longer
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	even	even	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Several weeks, maybe months

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:412-pg22373-part4:t13:o3:1
# text = Several weeks, maybe months
1	Several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	maybe	maybe	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A whole week or even longer, until the feast ended

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:412-pg22373-part4:t13:o4:1
# text = A whole week or even longer, until the feast ended
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
5	even	even	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	until	until	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
11	ended	end	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **end** | past | a whole week or the feast |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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**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. Elamur Cosmic License.

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