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title: Those wolves though, how many were there? — Irish Fairy Tales, Becfola, part 20: a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Those wolves though, how many were there? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1052 «Irish Fairy Tales, Becfola, part 20: a wolf chase and a handsome stranger» 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 wrong.
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# Test 8 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Becfola, part 20: a wolf chase and a ha…

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Those wolves though, how many were there?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** wolves · **What happens:** be

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1052 «Irish Fairy Tales, Becfola, part 20: a wolf chase and a handsome stranger» 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/1052-pg2892-part20/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1052-pg2892-part20:t8:1
# text = Those wolves though, how many were there?
1	Those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	though	though	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
6	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | that wolves |  |  |  |  | there *property* | 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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A small few of them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1052-pg2892-part20:t8:o1:1
# text = A small few of them
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A proper big pack of grey wolves, like loads of them all snarling

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1052-pg2892-part20:t8:o2:1
# text = A proper big pack of grey wolves, like loads of them all snarling
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	pack	pack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	loads	load	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nmod	_	_
13	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	snarling	snarling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Maybe twenty or so

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1052-pg2892-part20:t8:o3:1
# text = Maybe twenty or so
1	Maybe	maybe	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	2	conj	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A proper big pack

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1052-pg2892-part20:t8:o4:1
# text = A proper big pack
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	pack	pack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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