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title: Innit, how long were those needles going to take to wear out? — Fairy Book, The Land of Immortality: t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Innit, how long were those needles going to take to wear out? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 691 «Fairy Book, The Land of Immortality: the prince rides a ring to the world's end and finds a queen who wakes» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question a
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# Test 3 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Land of Immortality: the prince rides a ri…

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Innit, how long were those needles going to take to wear out?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Innit · **What happens:** go, take, wear out

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 691 «Fairy Book, The Land of Immortality: the prince rides a ring to the world's end and finds a queen who wakes» 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/691-pg2435-part31/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:691-pg2435-part31:t3:1
# text = Innit, how long were those needles going to take to wear out?
1	Innit	Innit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	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	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	needles	needle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	wear	wear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past · progressive | Innit |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **take** | to-infinitive | Innit *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn require-103 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition |
| 3 | **wear out** | to-infinitive | Innit *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |

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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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An hour

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:691-pg2435-part31:t3:o1:1
# text = An hour
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Several centuries

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:691-pg2435-part31:t3:o2:1
# text = Several centuries
1	Several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	centuries	century	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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Ten long years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:691-pg2435-part31:t3:o3:1
# text = Ten long years
1	Ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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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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A thousand years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:691-pg2435-part31:t3:o4:1
# text = A thousand years
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	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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