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title: For what length of time did the man walk through the dark forest bef… — Grimm's Household Tales, The Raven, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: For what length of time did the man walk through the dark forest before reaching the giant? Exam question 2 of lesson 772 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Raven, part 48: a giant's maps, a glass mountain, a magic stick» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmati
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# Exam question 2 · Grimm's Household Tales, The Raven, part 48: a giant's map…

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For what length of time did the man walk through the dark forest before reaching the giant?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** man · **What happens:** walk, reach · **To what, where:** dark forest, giant

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 772 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Raven, part 48: a giant's maps, a glass mountain, a magic stick» 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/772-pg2591-part48/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:772-pg2591-part48:e2:1
# text = For what length of time did the man walk through the dark forest before reaching the giant?
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
3	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	through	through	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	reaching	reach	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past · do-support | the man |  |  | the dark forest |  | for length of time | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through forest=Trajectory |
| 2 | **reach** | gerund | the man *not said here* | the giant |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent giant=Theme |

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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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Fourteen days

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:772-pg2591-part48:e2:o1:1
# text = Fourteen days
1	Fourteen	fourteen	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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Two days

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:772-pg2591-part48:e2:o2:1
# text = Two days
1	Two	two	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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Twenty days

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:772-pg2591-part48:e2:o3:1
# 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 4 {#o4}

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Nine days

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:772-pg2591-part48:e2:o4:1
# text = Nine days
1	Nine	nine	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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**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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