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title: so how long did this whole money-making thing go on? — Fairy Book, Hok Lee and the Dwarfs: an… · tree and pragmatics
description: so how long did this whole money-making thing go on? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1914 «Fairy Book, Hok Lee and the Dwarfs: angry dwarfs, one last dance, and a cure» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wr
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# Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Book, Hok Lee and the Dwarfs: angry dwarfs, one last…

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so how long did this whole money-making thing go on?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** this, whole making thing · **What happens:** do, make, thing, go on

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1914 «Fairy Book, Hok Lee and the Dwarfs: angry dwarfs, one last dance, and a cure» 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/1914-pg7277-part51/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1914-pg7277-part51:t8:1
# text = so how long did this whole money-making thing go on?
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
3	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	nsubj	_	_
6	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
7	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	amod	_	_
10	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	_
11	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl	_	_
12	on	on	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **thing** |  | this |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go on** | infinitive | whole making thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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a few decades

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1914-pg7277-part51:t8:o1:1
# text = a few decades
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	decades	decade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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a few years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1914-pg7277-part51:t8:o2:1
# text = a few years
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	years	year	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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several years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1914-pg7277-part51:t8:o3:1
# text = several years
1	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
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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a month

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1914-pg7277-part51:t8:o4:1
# text = a month
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	month	month	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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