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title: dude, how long did the blind hero chill in the woods? — Russian Folk-Tales, Katoma, part 56: t… · tree and pragmatics
description: dude, how long did the blind hero chill in the woods? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 464 «Russian Folk-Tales, Katoma, part 56: the heroes trap the Baba Yaga and are healed» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice 
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# Test 13 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Katoma, part 56: the heroes trap the B…

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dude, how long did the blind hero chill in the woods?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** dude · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** blind hero chill, woods

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 464 «Russian Folk-Tales, Katoma, part 56: the heroes trap the Baba Yaga and are healed» 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/464-pg22373-part56/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:464-pg22373-part56:t13:1
# text = dude, how long did the blind hero chill in the woods?
1	dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	chill	chill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	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 | dude | the blind hero chill |  | the woods |  | long *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chill=Eventuality |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
thirty years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:464-pg22373-part56:t13:o1:1
# text = thirty years
1	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
for many long years living alone in the woods

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:464-pg22373-part56:t13:o2:1
# text = for many long years living alone in the woods
1	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | gerund | many long years *not said here* |  |  | the woods |  | alone *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
until a passing hunter found him beneath the oak

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:464-pg22373-part56:t13:o3:1
# text = until a passing hunter found him beneath the oak
1	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	amod	_	_
4	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | past | a passing hunter | him *= he* |  |  |  | beneath the oak | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
forty years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:464-pg22373-part56:t13:o4:1
# text = forty years
1	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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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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