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title: No cap, how long did the locust story go on? — Book of Tales, Maximilian and the Goos… · tree and pragmatics
description: No cap, how long did the locust story go on? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 356 «Book of Tales, Maximilian and the Goose Boy, part 1: the king naps under a tree and wakes at noon» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's c
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# Test 4 · ★ · Book of Tales, Maximilian and the Goose Boy, part 1: the k…

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No cap, how long did the locust story go on?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** cap · **What happens:** go on

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 356 «Book of Tales, Maximilian and the Goose Boy, part 1: the king naps under a tree and wakes at noon» 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/356-pg18442-part16/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:356-pg18442-part16:t4:1
# text = No cap, how long did the locust story go on?
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
5	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
6	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	locust	Locust	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	on	on	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go on** | past · do-support | no cap |  |  |  |  |  | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Like two years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:356-pg18442-part16:t4:o1:1
# text = Like two years
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
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 2 {#o2}

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Like three weeks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:356-pg18442-part16:t4:o2:1
# text = Like three weeks
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	weeks	week	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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Like a year

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:356-pg18442-part16:t4:o3:1
# text = Like a year
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Like two whole years of locusts eating everything

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:356-pg18442-part16:t4:o4:1
# text = Like two whole years of locusts eating everything
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	locusts	locust	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | gerund | locusts *not said here* | everything |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Patient |

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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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