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title: Bro, how long did the posh prince stay at the duke's gaff? — Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Long Nose,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, how long did the posh prince stay at the duke's gaff? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 1792 «Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Long Nose, part 43: the goose finds the magic herb for the pasty» 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 2 · ★ · Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Long Nose, part 43: the goose f…

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Bro, how long did the posh prince stay at the duke's gaff?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** posh prince · **What happens:** stay · **To what, where:** gaff

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1792 «Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Long Nose, part 43: the goose finds the magic herb for the pasty» 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/1792-pg641-part43/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1792-pg641-part43:t2:1
# text = Bro, how long did the posh prince stay at the duke's gaff?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	posh	posh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	duke	duke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	gaff	gaff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | past · do-support | the posh prince |  |  | the duke's gaff |  | Bro *vocative*; long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at gaff=Location |

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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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a fortnight, innit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1792-pg641-part43:t2:o1:1
# text = a fortnight, innit
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fortnight	fortnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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about three weeks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1792-pg641-part43:t2:o2:1
# text = about three weeks
1	about	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	weeks	week	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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two weeks, innit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1792-pg641-part43:t2:o3:1
# text = two weeks, innit
1	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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since the feast, innit, like ages back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1792-pg641-part43:t2:o4:1
# text = since the feast, innit, like ages back
1	since	since	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	ages	age	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
9	back	back	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
```

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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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