--- title: How long did the twelve men keep at him? — Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Mo… · tree and pragmatics description: How long did the twelve men keep at him? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 777 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Mountain, part 53: Heinel is set adrift, wins magic gifts, and finds his queen about to remarry» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questio --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/777-pg2591-part53/t3/) [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 Household Tales, The Golden Mo…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/777-pg2591-part53/) / t3 # Test 3 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Mountain, part 53: Hei… How long did the twelve men keep at him? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** twelve men · **What happens:** do, keep This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 777 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Mountain, part 53: Heinel is set adrift, wins magic gifts, and finds his queen about to remarry» 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/777-pg2591-part53/#t3). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:777-pg2591-part53:t3:1 # text = How long did the twelve men keep at him? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 3 advmod _ _ 3 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | | | | | | long *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **keep** | present | the twelve men | | | | | at him *= he* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent at he=Location | 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} Ages, mate ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:777-pg2591-part53:t3:o1:1 # text = Ages, mate 1 Ages Age PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 vocative _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Three hours or so, mate ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:777-pg2591-part53:t3:o2:1 # text = Three hours or so, mate 1 Three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 compound _ _ 3 or or CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 so so ADV RB _ 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 6 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Till the sun came up, mate ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:777-pg2591-part53:t3:o3:1 # text = Till the sun came up, mate 1 Till till SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 up up ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 vocative _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come up** | past | the sun | | | | | mate *vocative* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} One whole night, mate ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:777-pg2591-part53:t3:o4:1 # text = One whole night, mate 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 2 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ ``` 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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