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title: Lol, how many days till they all dropped? — Irish Fairy Tales, Tuan mac Cairill, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lol, how many days till they all dropped? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1034 «Irish Fairy Tales, Tuan mac Cairill, part 2: Tuan's lonely years, a plague, and a stag» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wro
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# Test 4 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Tuan mac Cairill, part 2: Tuan's lonely…

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Lol, how many days till they all dropped?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** drop · **To what, where:** they

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1034 «Irish Fairy Tales, Tuan mac Cairill, part 2: Tuan's lonely years, a plague, and a stag» 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/1034-pg2892-part2/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1034-pg2892-part2:t4:1
# text = Lol, how many days till they all dropped?
1	Lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
6	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	dropped	drop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drop** | participle · passive |  | they |  |  | day |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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three days

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1034-pg2892-part2:t4:o1:1
# text = three days
1	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
nine days, all dead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1034-pg2892-part2:t4:o2:1
# text = nine days, all dead
1	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
four days, all done

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1034-pg2892-part2:t4:o3:1
# text = four days, all done
1	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	all	all	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | participle · passive |  | four days |  |  |  | all *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
seven days, all gone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1034-pg2892-part2:t4:o4:1
# text = seven days, all gone
1	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	all	all	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	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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