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title: wait, how long did papa stork stand on one leg? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King… · tree and pragmatics
description: wait, how long did papa stork stand on one leg? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 890 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 101: the storks plan to hide the swan feathers» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; 
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# Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 10…

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wait, how long did papa stork stand on one leg?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, papa stork · **What happens:** wait, do, stand · **To what, where:** one leg

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 890 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 101: the storks plan to hide the swan feathers» 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/890-pg27200-part101/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:890-pg27200-part101:t9:1
# text = wait, how long did papa stork stand on one leg?
1	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
6	papa	papa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	stork	stork	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	stand	stand	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | past | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **stand** | present | papa stork |  |  | one leg |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location |

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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 {#o1}

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one day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:890-pg27200-part101:t9:o1:1
# text = one day
1	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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the whole next day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:890-pg27200-part101:t9:o2:1
# text = the whole next day
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the whole next week

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:890-pg27200-part101:t9:o3:1
# text = the whole next week
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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all night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:890-pg27200-part101:t9:o4:1
# text = all night
1	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	night	night	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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**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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