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title: hold up, how long was the journey for an envoy there and back? — Russian Tales, The Staring-Eyed Shephe… · tree and pragmatics
description: hold up, how long was the journey for an envoy there and back? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 666 «Russian Tales, The Staring-Eyed Shepherd: the king's toast and the wedding feast» 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 10 · ★ · Russian Tales, The Staring-Eyed Shepherd: the king's toast…

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hold up, how long was the journey for an envoy there and back?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** hold up, be · **To what, where:** journey

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 666 «Russian Tales, The Staring-Eyed Shepherd: the king's toast and the wedding feast» 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/666-pg2435-part6/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:666-pg2435-part6:t10:1
# text = hold up, how long was the journey for an envoy there and back?
1	hold	hold	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	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=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	envoy	envoy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
12	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	back	back	ADV	RB	_	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold up** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | there |  | for a envoy | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | the journey |  |  |  | long *property* | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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twenty years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:666-pg2435-part6:t10:o1:1
# text = twenty years
1	twenty	twenty	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 {#o2}

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twenty weeks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:666-pg2435-part6:t10:o2:1
# text = twenty weeks
1	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	weeks	week	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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a month

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:666-pg2435-part6:t10:o3:1
# text = a month
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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ten years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:666-pg2435-part6:t10:o4:1
# text = ten years
1	ten	ten	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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