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title: Fam, how many ships came with Nemed? — Irish Fairy Tales, Tuan mac Cairill, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: Fam, how many ships came with Nemed? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 1034 «Irish Fairy Tales, Tuan mac Cairill, part 2: Tuan's lonely years, a plague, and a stag» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 9 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Tuan mac Cairill, part 2: Tuan's lonely…

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Fam, how many ships came with Nemed?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Fam · **What happens:** come

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1034 «Irish Fairy Tales, Tuan mac Cairill, part 2: Tuan's lonely years, a plague, and a stag» 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/1034-pg2892-part2/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1034-pg2892-part2:t9:1
# text = Fam, how many ships came with Nemed?
1	Fam	fam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Nemed	Nemed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Fam and many ships |  |  |  |  | with Nemed | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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thirty-four barques

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1034-pg2892-part2:t9:o1:1
# text = thirty-four barques
1	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	_
4	barques	barque	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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thirty-two ships

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1034-pg2892-part2:t9:o2:1
# text = thirty-two ships
1	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	_
4	ships	ship	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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four barques

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1034-pg2892-part2:t9:o3:1
# text = four barques
1	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	barques	barque	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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nine ships

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1034-pg2892-part2:t9:o4:1
# text = nine ships
1	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	ships	ship	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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