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title: wait, how long was Peter hired for, like a year or what? — Grimm, Eisenkopf, part 45: Peter's nut… · tree and pragmatics
description: wait, how long was Peter hired for, like a year or what? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 705 «Grimm, Eisenkopf, part 45: Peter's nut-born herds, his wedding, and his flight from Eisenkopf» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; 
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# Test 2 · ★ · Grimm, Eisenkopf, part 45: Peter's nut-born herds, his wed…

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wait, how long was Peter hired for, like a year or what?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, Peter · **What happens:** wait, be

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 705 «Grimm, Eisenkopf, part 45: Peter's nut-born herds, his wedding, and his flight from Eisenkopf» 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/705-pg2435-part45/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:705-pg2435-part45:t2:1
# text = wait, how long was Peter hired for, like a year or what?
1	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	hired	hire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	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 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | Peter |  |  |  |  | hire, 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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a year

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:705-pg2435-part45:t2:o1:1
# text = a year
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	year	year	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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a month

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:705-pg2435-part45:t2:o2:1
# 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 3 {#o3}

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weeks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:705-pg2435-part45:t2:o3:1
# text = weeks
1	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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days

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:705-pg2435-part45:t2:o4:1
# text = days
1	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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**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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