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title: Ages underwater, how long was she living down there? — Russian Tales, The Water Snake: a girl… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ages underwater, how long was she living down there? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 434 «Russian Tales, The Water Snake: a girl promises to marry a snake, and her mother kills him» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's 
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# Test 6 · ★ · Russian Tales, The Water Snake: a girl promises to marry a…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Ages underwater, how long was she living down there?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Ages · **What happens:** live down

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 434 «Russian Tales, The Water Snake: a girl promises to marry a snake, and her mother kills him» 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/434-pg22373-part26/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:434-pg22373-part26:t6:1
# text = Ages underwater, how long was she living down there?
1	Ages	Age	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
2	underwater	underwater	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
5	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	living	live	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	down	down	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live down** | past · progressive | Ages |  |  | there |  | long *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Three years, like proper ages

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:434-pg22373-part26:t6:o1:1
# text = Three years, like proper ages
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	ages	age	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Three years, like proper ages, long enough to forget home

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:434-pg22373-part26:t6:o2:1
# text = Three years, like proper ages, long enough to forget home
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	ages	age	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
9	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
12	home	home	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forget** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | home *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Almost seven years, like proper ages, down in the water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:434-pg22373-part26:t6:o3:1
# text = Almost seven years, like proper ages, down in the water
1	Almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	ages	age	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	down	down	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Five years, like ages

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:434-pg22373-part26:t6:o4:1
# text = Five years, like ages
1	Five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	ages	age	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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

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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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