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title: Ngl, how long was that beard? — Grimm, Snow-White and Rose-Red, part 6… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ngl, how long was that beard? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 788 «Grimm, Snow-White and Rose-Red, part 64: two sisters befriend a bear and free a dwarf from a tree» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was righ
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# Test 11 · ★ · Grimm, Snow-White and Rose-Red, part 64: two sisters befri…

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Ngl, how long was that beard?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** beard

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 788 «Grimm, Snow-White and Rose-Red, part 64: two sisters befriend a bear and free a dwarf from a tree» 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/788-pg2591-part64/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:788-pg2591-part64:t11:1
# text = Ngl, how long was that beard?
1	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	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	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | that beard |  |  |  | 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 yard long

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:788-pg2591-part64:t11:o1:1
# text = A yard long
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Three yards

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:788-pg2591-part64:t11:o2:1
# text = Three yards
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	yards	yard	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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Short

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:788-pg2591-part64:t11:o3:1
# text = Short
1	Short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Ten inches

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:788-pg2591-part64:t11:o4:1
# text = Ten inches
1	Ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	inches	inch	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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