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title: How many dead guys were there, anyway? — Deirdre, Becfola's Wooing, part 21: Be… · tree and pragmatics
description: How many dead guys were there, anyway? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1053 «Deirdre, Becfola's Wooing, part 21: Becfola sneaks home and the king turns her scolding into a joke» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's cho
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# Test 11 · ★ · Deirdre, Becfola's Wooing, part 21: Becfola sneaks home an…

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How many dead guys were there, anyway?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** many dead guys · **What happens:** be

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1053 «Deirdre, Becfola's Wooing, part 21: Becfola sneaks home and the king turns her scolding into a joke» 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/1053-pg2892-part21/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1053-pg2892-part21:t11:1
# text = How many dead guys were there, anyway?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	guys	guy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	anyway	anyway	ADV	RB	_	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | many dead guys |  |  |  |  | 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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Four

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1053-pg2892-part21:t11:o1:1
# text = Four
1	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Eight, counting the one still standing on the grass

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1053-pg2892-part21:t11:o2:1
# text = Eight, counting the one still standing on the grass
1	Eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	counting	count	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	still	still	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	conj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | gerund | Eight | the one |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | gerund | Eight *not said here* |  |  | the grass | still |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on grass=Location |

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

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Seven

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1053-pg2892-part21:t11:o3:1
# text = Seven
1	Seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Eleven

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1053-pg2892-part21:t11:o4:1
# text = Eleven
1	Eleven	eleven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	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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