--- title: Wait, how long did the mouse-king give them to learn the soup? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sa… · tree and pragmatics description: Wait, how long did the mouse-king give them to learn the soup? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 989 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer, part 1: four mice set out to learn how to make soup, and one of them meets elves at a Maypole dance» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dep --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/989-pg27200-part200/t1/) [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, Soup from a Sa…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/989-pg27200-part200/) / t1 # Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer, part 1… Wait, how long did the mouse-king give them to learn the soup? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, mouse king · **What happens:** wait, do, give, learn · **To what, where:** them, soup This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 989 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer, part 1: four mice set out to learn how to make soup, and one of them meets elves at a Maypole dance» 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/989-pg27200-part200/#t1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:989-pg27200-part200:t1:1 # text = Wait, how long did the mouse-king give them to learn the soup? 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 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 7 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 11 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 iobj _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 soup soup NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | 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* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **give** | present | the mouse king | | them *= they* | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **learn** | to-infinitive | the mouse king *not said here* | the soup | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soup=Topic | 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} a year and a day ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:989-pg27200-part200:t1:o1:1 # text = a year and a day 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} one night ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:989-pg27200-part200:t1:o2:1 # text = one night 1 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} three long winters ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:989-pg27200-part200:t1:o3:1 # text = three long winters 1 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 2 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 winters winter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} a day ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:989-pg27200-part200:t1:o4:1 # text = a day 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 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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