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title: test: Nah, how long had that tower been empty, like proper ages? — Blue Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: test: Nah, how long had that tower been empty, like proper ages? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 1554 «Blue Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1: a prince refuses a wedding and finds magic in his tower» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and o
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# Test 9 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1: a prince refus…

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test: Nah, how long had that tower been empty, like proper ages?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** tower · **What happens:** have, be · **To what, where:** test

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1554 «Blue Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1: a prince refuses a wedding and finds magic in his tower» 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/1554-pg540-part51/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1554-pg540-part51:t9:1
# text = test: Nah, how long had that tower been empty, like proper ages?
1	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
6	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	cop	_	_
11	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	like	like	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	ages	age	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past |  | test |  |  | like proper ages | long *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | participle | that tower |  |  |  |  | empty *property* | tree rules |

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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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about three hundred years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1554-pg540-part51:t9:o1:1
# text = about three hundred years
1	about	about	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	compound	_	_
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a while

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1554-pg540-part51:t9:o2:1
# text = a while
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	while	while	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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nearly two centuries

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1554-pg540-part51:t9:o3:1
# text = nearly two centuries
1	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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about two hundred years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1554-pg540-part51:t9:o4:1
# text = about two hundred years
1	about	about	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	compound	_	_
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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