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title: How long did that storm go on, roughly? — Fairy Book, The Invisible Prince: Gnom… · tree and pragmatics
description: How long did that storm go on, roughly? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 1699 «Fairy Book, The Invisible Prince: Gnome learns his rival's name, and Rosalie reaches the Golden Isle» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's ch
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# Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Invisible Prince: Gnome learns his rival's…

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How long did that storm go on, roughly?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** storm · **What happens:** go on

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1699 «Fairy Book, The Invisible Prince: Gnome learns his rival's name, and Rosalie reaches the Golden Isle» 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/1699-pg640-part23/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1699-pg640-part23:t9:1
# text = How long did that storm go on, roughly?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	roughly	roughly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go on** | past · do-support | that storm |  |  |  |  | long, roughly *property* | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Many days

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1699-pg640-part23:t9:o1:1
# text = Many days
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
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}

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Some nights

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1699-pg640-part23:t9:o2:1
# text = Some nights
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Like, for many days and nights without any stop

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1699-pg640-part23:t9:o3:1
# text = Like, for many days and nights without any stop
1	Like	like	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	without	without	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	stop	stop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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About a week

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1699-pg640-part23:t9:o4:1
# text = About a week
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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