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title: How often did the Prince of the Air go visit his mum and bros? — Fairy Tales, The Invisible Prince, par… · tree and pragmatics
description: How often did the Prince of the Air go visit his mum and bros? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1696 «Fairy Tales, The Invisible Prince, part 20: a secret poem for Rosalie» 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 wa
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# Test 11 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Invisible Prince, part 20: a secret poem…

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How often did the Prince of the Air go visit his mum and bros?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do, visit · **To what, where:** Prince, mum

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1696 «Fairy Tales, The Invisible Prince, part 20: a secret poem for Rosalie» 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/1696-pg640-part20/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1696-pg640-part20:t11:1
# text = How often did the Prince of the Air go visit his mum and bros?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Air	Air	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	go	go	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	visit	visit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	bros	bro	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the Prince of the Air |  |  |  | often *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Eventuality |
| 2 | **visit** | infinitive |  | his mum and bros |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mum=Co-Agent |

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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 {#o1}

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Once a month

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1696-pg640-part20:t11:o1:1
# text = Once a month
1	Once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Every year

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1696-pg640-part20:t11:o2:1
# text = Every year
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Each time the spirits called him to his old home

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1696-pg640-part20:t11:o3:1
# text = Each time the spirits called him to his old home
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past | the spirits | him *= he* | his old home |  | time |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Topic to home=Recipient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Twice a year

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1696-pg640-part20:t11:o4:1
# text = Twice a year
1	Twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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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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