--- title: To what duration does the narrative attribute Helga's absence in the… — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks: He… · tree and pragmatics description: To what duration does the narrative attribute Helga's absence in the heavenly kingdom? Exam question 1 of lesson 897 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks: Helga goes to heaven for three minutes and returns to find a night gone» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree an --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/897-pg27200-part108/e1/) [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/) / [Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks: He…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/897-pg27200-part108/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks: Helga goes to heaven f… To what duration does the narrative attribute Helga's absence in the heavenly kingdom? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** duration, Helga · **What happens:** do, absent · **To what, where:** narrative attribute, heavenly kingdom This is exam question 1 of lesson 897 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks: Helga goes to heaven for three minutes and returns to find a night gone» 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/897-pg27200-part108/#e1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:897-pg27200-part108:e1:1 # text = To what duration does the narrative attribute Helga's absence in the heavenly kingdom? 1 To to ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 0 root _ _ 3 duration duration NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 narrative narrative ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 attribute attribute NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 Helga Helga PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 9 's 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 absence absence NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 appos _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 heavenly heavenly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 kingdom kingdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | present | duration | the narrative attribute | | the heavenly kingdom | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attribute=Eventuality | | 2 | **absent** | | Helga | | | | | | nom absence «state transitive»: poss=agent | 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} three hours ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:897-pg27200-part108:e1:o1:1 # text = three hours 1 three three 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} from the feast until the next dawn ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:897-pg27200-part108:e1:o2:1 # text = from the feast until the next dawn 1 from from ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 feast feast NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 until until ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 dawn dawn NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} approximately three earthly minutes ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:897-pg27200-part108:e1:o3:1 # text = approximately three earthly minutes 1 approximately approximately ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 3 earthly earthly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} three minutes ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:897-pg27200-part108:e1:o4:1 # text = three minutes 1 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 minutes minute 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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