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title: Mate, how many years between them serpent feasts, like seriously? — Project Gutenberg 641, The Boys with t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, how many years between them serpent feasts, like seriously? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 1801 «Project Gutenberg 641, The Boys with the Golden Stars, part 1: an emperor hears three sisters' boasts and carries off Laptitza» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and prag
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# Test 2 · ★ · Project Gutenberg 641, The Boys with the Golden Stars, par…

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Mate, how many years between them serpent feasts, like seriously?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Mate · **What happens:** serpent · **To what, where:** feasts

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1801 «Project Gutenberg 641, The Boys with the Golden Stars, part 1: an emperor hears three sisters' boasts and carries off Laptitza» 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/1801-pg641-part52/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1801-pg641-part52:t2:1
# text = Mate, how many years between them serpent feasts, like seriously?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
6	between	between	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	_
8	serpent	serpent	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	feasts	feast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	seriously	seriously	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **serpent** | present | Mate and many years between them | feasts |  |  |  | seriously *property* | tree rules |

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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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Seven years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1801-pg641-part52:t2:o1:1
# text = Seven years
1	Seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	years	year	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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Seven moons

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1801-pg641-part52:t2:o2:1
# text = Seven moons
1	Seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	moons	moon	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 years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1801-pg641-part52:t2:o3:1
# text = Two years
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	years	year	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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Yearly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1801-pg641-part52:t2:o4:1
# text = Yearly
1	Yearly	yearly	ADV	RB	_	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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