--- title: After how many years did the prince arrive at the palace? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, Briar Rose: a spi… · tree and pragmatics description: After how many years did the prince arrive at the palace? Exam question 2 of lesson 731 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Briar Rose: a spindle prick, a hundred years' sleep, and a prince's kiss» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each op --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/731-pg2591-part7/e2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Grimm's Fairy Tales, Briar Rose: a spi…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/731-pg2591-part7/) / e2 # Exam question 2 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Briar Rose: a spindle prick, a hundre… After how many years did the prince arrive at the palace? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** prince · **What happens:** do, arrive · **To what, where:** palace This is exam question 2 of lesson 731 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Briar Rose: a spindle prick, a hundred years' sleep, and a prince's kiss» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/731-pg2591-part7/#e2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:731-pg2591-part7:e2:1 # text = After how many years did the prince arrive at the palace? 1 After after ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 3 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 5 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 arrive arrive VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | | | | | year | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **arrive** | present | the prince | | | the palace | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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} a hundred years ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:731-pg2591-part7:e2:o1:1 # text = a hundred years 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} a hundred years and more ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:731-pg2591-part7:e2:o2:1 # text = a hundred years and more 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} many long years after the spell began ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:731-pg2591-part7:e2:o3:1 # text = many long years after the spell began 1 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 4 after after ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 spell spell NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **begin** | past | many long years after the spell | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ### Option 4 {#o4} fifty years ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:731-pg2591-part7:e2:o4:1 # text = fifty years 1 fifty fifty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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