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title: Fr, how long till the Sultan came over? — Persian Tales, The Princess Parizade,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Fr, how long till the Sultan came over? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 232 «Persian Tales, The Princess Parizade, part 72: the Sultan is invited to the princess's house, and she plans a feast with pearl-stuffed cucumbers» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of
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# Test 4 · ★ · Persian Tales, The Princess Parizade, part 72: the Sultan…

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Fr, how long till the Sultan came over?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Fr · **What happens:** come over

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 232 «Persian Tales, The Princess Parizade, part 72: the Sultan is invited to the princess's house, and she plans a feast with pearl-stuffed cucumbers» 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/232-pg128-part72/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:232-pg128-part72:t4:1
# text = Fr, how long till the Sultan came over?
1	Fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	_
5	till	till	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	over	over	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come over** | past | Fr till the Sultan |  |  |  |  | over *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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Two days from now

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:232-pg128-part72:t4:o1:1
# text = Two days from now
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Within the week's end

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:232-pg128-part72:t4:o2:1
# text = Within the week's end
1	Within	within	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	end	end	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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Next week

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:232-pg128-part72:t4:o3:1
# text = Next week
1	Next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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The day after to-morrow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:232-pg128-part72:t4:o4:1
# text = The day after to-morrow
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	after	after	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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