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title: Yo, how long had Charley been in church? — Uncle Remus, The Florida Watermelon, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, how long had Charley been in church? Test 14 · ★ of lesson 598 «Uncle Remus, The Florida Watermelon, part 34: Remus warns a boy, tells of a stomach ache, and grumbles about schooling» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of eac
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# Test 14 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Florida Watermelon, part 34: Remus warns…

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Yo, how long had Charley been in church?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** have, be · **To what, where:** Charley, church

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This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 598 «Uncle Remus, The Florida Watermelon, part 34: Remus warns a boy, tells of a stomach ache, and grumbles about schooling» 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/598-pg2306-part34/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:598-pg2306-part34:t14:1
# text = Yo, how long had Charley been in church?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	csubj	_	_
6	Charley	Charley	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	cop	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past |  | Charley |  |  |  | long *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charley=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | participle |  |  |  | church |  |  | tree rules |

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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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About a month ago

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:598-pg2306-part34:t14:o1:1
# text = About a month ago
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	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 last spring

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:598-pg2306-part34:t14:o2:1
# text = Since last spring
1	Since	since	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Mighty near a week

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:598-pg2306-part34:t14:o3:1
# text = Mighty near a week
1	Mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	near	near	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Two days

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:598-pg2306-part34:t14:o4:1
# 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.

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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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