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title: Lol, how long did the raft stay in the sea before the tempest? — Greek heroes, Odysseus, part 66: Odyss… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lol, how long did the raft stay in the sea before the tempest? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 560 «Greek heroes, Odysseus, part 66: Odysseus lands in Ithaca and hides as a beggar» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's c
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# Test 9 · ★ · Greek heroes, Odysseus, part 66: Odysseus lands in Ithaca…

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Lol, how long did the raft stay in the sea before the tempest?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** raft · **What happens:** stay · **To what, where:** sea

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 560 «Greek heroes, Odysseus, part 66: Odysseus lands in Ithaca and hides as a beggar» 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/560-pg22381-part66/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:560-pg22381-part66:t9:1
# text = Lol, how long did the raft stay in the sea before the tempest?
1	Lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	raft	raft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	before	before	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	tempest	tempest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | past · do-support | the raft |  |  | the sea | before the tempest | long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Location |

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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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Eighteen days

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:560-pg22381-part66:t9:o1:1
# text = Eighteen days
1	Eighteen	eighteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Twenty days

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:560-pg22381-part66:t9:o2:1
# text = Twenty days
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Seventeen days, the whole time under the stars

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:560-pg22381-part66:t9:o3:1
# text = Seventeen days, the whole time under the stars
1	Seventeen	seventeen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	under	under	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
```

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

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

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Seventeen days

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:560-pg22381-part66:t9:o4:1
# text = Seventeen days
1	Seventeen	seventeen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	days	day	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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