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title: Yo, how long did the Prince wander before the first hut, like a day? — Fairy Tales (pg640), The Flower Queen'… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, how long did the Prince wander before the first hut, like a day? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1721 «Fairy Tales (pg640), The Flower Queen's Daughter, part 45: the Prince serves the Mother Dragon and calls three animal kings» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and prag
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# Test 1 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg640), The Flower Queen's Daughter, part 45:…

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Yo, how long did the Prince wander before the first hut, like a day?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** Prince wander

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1721 «Fairy Tales (pg640), The Flower Queen's Daughter, part 45: the Prince serves the Mother Dragon and calls three animal kings» 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/1721-pg640-part45/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1721-pg640-part45:t1:1
# text = Yo, how long did the Prince wander before the first hut, like a day?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	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	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	wander	wander	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	before	before	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	amod	_	_
12	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the Prince wander |  |  | before the first hut and a day | long *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wander=Eventuality |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Like a month, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1721-pg640-part45:t1:o1:1
# text = Like a month, mate
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A day, bro

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1721-pg640-part45:t1:o2:1
# text = A day, bro
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A few weeks, bruv

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1721-pg640-part45:t1:o3:1
# text = A few weeks, bruv
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A whole year, no joke

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1721-pg640-part45:t1:o4:1
# text = A whole year, no joke
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
```

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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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