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description: For what duration did the bottle remain concealed within the loft prior to its rebuilding of the house? Exam question 4 of lesson 806 «Andersen's Tales, The Bottle Neck: the bottle is hidden in a loft, sent up in a balloon, and smashes, but its neck survives» of the books course of Mova's primary sc
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# Exam question 4 · Andersen's Tales, The Bottle Neck: the bottle is hidden in…

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For what duration did the bottle remain concealed within the loft prior to its rebuilding of the house?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** duration · **What happens:** do, conceal, rebuild · **To what, where:** bottle, house

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 806 «Andersen's Tales, The Bottle Neck: the bottle is hidden in a loft, sent up in a balloon, and smashes, but its neck survives» 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/806-pg27200-part17/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:806-pg27200-part17:e4:1
# text = For what duration did the bottle remain concealed within the loft prior to its rebuilding of the house?
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	obl	_	_
3	duration	duration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	remain	remain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	concealed	conceal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	within	within	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	loft	loft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	prior	prior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	15	case	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	rebuilding	rebuilding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | duration | the bottle |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottle=Eventuality |
| 2 | **conceal** | present |  |  |  |  |  | within the loft; prior duration's rebuilding of the house | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **rebuild** |  | duration | the house |  |  |  |  | nom rebuilding «act transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |

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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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Twenty years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:806-pg27200-part17:e4:o1:1
# text = Twenty years
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	years	year	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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Twenty years, until the house was rebuilt

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:806-pg27200-part17:e4:o2:1
# text = Twenty years, until the house was rebuilt
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	rebuilt	rebuild	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rebuild** | past · passive |  | the house |  |  | year |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nineteen years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:806-pg27200-part17:e4:o3:1
# text = Nineteen years
1	Nineteen	nineteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	years	year	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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About a decade

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:806-pg27200-part17:e4:o4:1
# text = About a decade
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	decade	decade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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