--- title: ★★★ The chase began soon after ten o'clock and Nqong stopped it at f… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 6:… · tree and pragmatics description: ★★★ The chase began soon after ten o'clock and Nqong stopped it at five o'clock. About how many hours did it last? Test 15 · ★★ of lesson 81 «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 6: The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/81-justso-old-man-kangaroo/t15/) [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/) / [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 6:…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/81-justso-old-man-kangaroo/) / t15 # Test 15 · ★★ · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 6: The Sing-Song of Old… ★★★ The chase began soon after ten o'clock and Nqong stopped it at five o'clock. About how many hours did it last? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ★, Nqong, o'clock · **What happens:** begin, stop, last · **To what, where:** o'clock, five o'clock This is test 15 · ★★ of lesson 81 «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 6: The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo» 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/81-justso-old-man-kangaroo/#t15). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* ★★★ The chase began soon after ten o'clock and Nqong stopped it at five o'clock. ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:81-justso-old-man-kangaroo:t15:1 # text = ★★★ The chase began soon after ten o'clock and Nqong stopped it at five o'clock. 1 ★ ★ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ★ ★ X FW Foreign=Yes 1 dep _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ★ ★ ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 chase chase NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 6 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 6 advmod _ _ 8 after after ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 o'clock o'clock NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 Nqong Nqong PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 at at ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 o'clock o'clock NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **begin** | past | ★ ★ the chase | | | | after ten o'clock | soon *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **stop** | past | Nqong | o'clock | | five o'clock | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector it=Eventuality | 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. *Sentence 2:* About how many hours did it last? ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:81-justso-old-man-kangaroo:t15:2 # text = About how many hours did it last? 1 About about ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 3 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 5 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 last last VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **last** | past · do-support | o'clock | | | | hour | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Four hours ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:81-justso-old-man-kangaroo:t15:o1:1 # text = Four hours 1 Four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Around six hours ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:81-justso-old-man-kangaroo:t15:o2:1 # text = Around six hours 1 Around around ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Two hours ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:81-justso-old-man-kangaroo:t15:o3:1 # text = Two hours 1 Two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} About seven hours ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:81-justso-old-man-kangaroo:t15:o4:1 # text = About seven hours 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 hours hour 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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