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title: wait, Edmund skipped school tho, how often lol? — The Book of Dragons, The Last of the D… · tree and pragmatics
description: wait, Edmund skipped school tho, how often lol? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 659 «The Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 27: Edmund fetches the drakling and tricks it into the fire-shaft» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of
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# Test 3 · ★ · The Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 27: Edm…

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wait, Edmund skipped school tho, how often lol?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, Edmund · **What happens:** wait, skip · **To what, where:** school tho

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 659 «The Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 27: Edmund fetches the drakling and tricks it into the fire-shaft» 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/659-pg23661-part27/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:659-pg23661-part27:t3:1
# text = wait, Edmund skipped school tho, how often lol?
1	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	skipped	skip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
5	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	tho	tho	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
9	often	often	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
10	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **skip** | past | Edmund | school tho |  |  |  | often *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tho=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 {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
about every single day of the whole term

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:659-pg23661-part27:t3:o1:1
# text = about every single day of the whole term
1	about	about	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
3	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
every week

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:659-pg23661-part27:t3:o2:1
# text = every week
1	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
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 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
he skipped school so often his master wrote letters home

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:659-pg23661-part27:t3:o3:1
# text = he skipped school so often his master wrote letters home
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	skipped	skip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	often	often	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
9	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	home	home	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **skip** | past | he | school |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent school=Agent |
| 2 | **write** | past | his master | letters |  |  |  | home, often *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
very often

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:659-pg23661-part27:t3:o4:1
# text = very often
1	very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	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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