---
title: How long ago did that lady snuff it, roughly? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House:… · tree and pragmatics
description: How long ago did that lady snuff it, roughly? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 921 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House: a lonely old man and a little boy become friends across the street» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option;
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/921-pg27200-part132/t9/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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 Old House:…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/921-pg27200-part132/) / t9

# Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House: a lonely old man an…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
How long ago did that lady snuff it, roughly?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** snuff · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** lady snuff

<!-- .vabout -->
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 921 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House: a lonely old man and a little boy become friends across the street» 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/921-pg27200-part132/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:921-pg27200-part132:t9:1
# text = How long ago did that lady snuff it, roughly?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
3	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
6	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	snuff	snuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	roughly	roughly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | snuff | that lady snuff |  |  |  | ago, roughly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snuff=Eventuality |

<!-- .note -->
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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nearly half a century back, long before the boy was born

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:921-pg27200-part132:t9:o1:1
# text = Nearly half a century back, long before the boy was born
1	Nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	4	det:predet	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | past · passive |  | the boy |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Around fifty years back, when the house was still new and bright

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:921-pg27200-part132:t9:o2:1
# text = Around fifty years back, when the house was still new and bright
1	Around	around	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	11	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	still	still	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the house |  |  |  | still | new *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the house *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nearly half a century back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:921-pg27200-part132:t9:o3:1
# text = Nearly half a century back
1	Nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	4	det:predet	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nearly a century ago

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:921-pg27200-part132:t9:o4:1
# text = Nearly a century ago
1	Nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House:…, test 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/921-pg27200-part132/t8/)
- next →: [Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House:…, test 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/921-pg27200-part132/t10/)
- ↑ back to [Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House: a lonely old man and a little boy become friends across the street](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/921-pg27200-part132/)