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title: how long had the flowers gone without water, mate? — Happy Prince, The Devoted Friend, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: how long had the flowers gone without water, mate? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 2037 «Happy Prince, The Devoted Friend, part 7: Hans gives away everything and works until he is worn out» 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 11 · ★ · Happy Prince, The Devoted Friend, part 7: Hans gives away…

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how long had the flowers gone without water, mate?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** have, go · **To what, where:** flowers

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 2037 «Happy Prince, The Devoted Friend, part 7: Hans gives away everything and works until he is worn out» 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/2037-pg902-part7/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2037-pg902-part7:t11:1
# text = how long had the flowers gone without water, mate?
1	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	without	without	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past |  | the flowers |  |  |  | long *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient |
| 2 | **go** | participle |  | the flowers *not said here* |  |  |  | without water and mate | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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three days

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2037-pg902-part7:t11:o1:1
# text = three days
1	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	days	day	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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two days

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2037-pg902-part7:t11:o2:1
# text = two days
1	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	days	day	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

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2037-pg902-part7:t11:o3:1
# text = two weeks
1	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	weeks	week	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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one day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2037-pg902-part7:t11:o4:1
# text = one day
1	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	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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