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title: How long had he gone without scoff before he landed? — Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Horse, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: How long had he gone without scoff before he landed? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 222 «Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Horse, part 62: a prince flies away and lands in a princess's palace» 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 8 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Horse, part 62: a prince fli…

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How long had he gone without scoff before he landed?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** he · **What happens:** go, land

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 222 «Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Horse, part 62: a prince flies away and lands in a princess's palace» 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/222-pg128-part62/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:222-pg128-part62:t8:1
# text = How long had he gone without scoff before he landed?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	without	without	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	scoff	scoff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	landed	land	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past · perfect | he |  |  |  |  | without scoff; long *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **land** | past | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |

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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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since early morning

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:222-pg128-part62:t8:o1:1
# text = since early morning
1	since	since	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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since noon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:222-pg128-part62:t8:o2:1
# text = since noon
1	since	since	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	noon	noon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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for about two days

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:222-pg128-part62:t8:o3:1
# text = for about two days
1	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	about	about	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	days	day	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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since dawn yesterday

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:222-pg128-part62:t8:o4:1
# text = since dawn yesterday
1	since	since	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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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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