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title: Dude, how many times did the prince snap that cord? — pg641, the prince and his beasts, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dude, how many times did the prince snap that cord? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1757 «pg641, the prince and his beasts, part 8: the prince is killed and a crow brings him back to life» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option;
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# Test 10 · ★ · pg641, the prince and his beasts, part 8: the prince is ki…

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Dude, how many times did the prince snap that cord?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Dude · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** prince snap

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1757 «pg641, the prince and his beasts, part 8: the prince is killed and a crow brings him back to life» 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/1757-pg641-part8/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1757-pg641-part8:t10:1
# text = Dude, how many times did the prince snap that cord?
1	Dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	snap	snap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	det	_	_
11	cord	cord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Dude | the prince snap  that cord |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snap=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}

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four times

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1757-pg641-part8:t10:o1:1
# text = four times
1	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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two times

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1757-pg641-part8:t10:o2:1
# text = two times
1	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	times	time	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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three times

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1757-pg641-part8:t10:o3:1
# text = three times
1	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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once

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1757-pg641-part8:t10:o4:1
# text = once
1	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	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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