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title: how many miles did the Carl stop before Ben Edair for blackberries? — Irish Fairy Tales, The Carl of the Coa… · tree and pragmatics
description: how many miles did the Carl stop before Ben Edair for blackberries? Test 14 · ★ of lesson 1058 «Irish Fairy Tales, The Carl of the Coat-Tails, part 26: the Carl stops for blackberries while Fionn waits for news» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of
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# Test 14 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, The Carl of the Coat-Tails, part 26: th…

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how many miles did the Carl stop before Ben Edair for blackberries?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** many miles · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** Carl stop

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This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1058 «Irish Fairy Tales, The Carl of the Coat-Tails, part 26: the Carl stops for blackberries while Fionn waits for news» 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/1058-pg2892-part26/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1058-pg2892-part26:t14:1
# text = how many miles did the Carl stop before Ben Edair for blackberries?
1	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Carl	Carl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	stop	stop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	before	before	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	Ben	Ben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
10	Edair	Edair	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	blackberries	blackberry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | many miles | the Carl stop |  |  | before Ben Edair | for blackberries | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stop=Eventuality |

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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}

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Four miles, he was near the river

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1058-pg2892-part26:t14:o1:1
# text = Four miles, he was near the river
1	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	near	near	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | he |  |  | the river |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Two miles, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1058-pg2892-part26:t14:o2:1
# text = Two miles, mate
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Five miles, at the far side of the wood

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1058-pg2892-part26:t14:o3:1
# text = Five miles, at the far side of the wood
1	Five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
```

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

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

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Five miles, he was right near the end

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1058-pg2892-part26:t14:o4:1
# text = Five miles, he was right near the end
1	Five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	near	near	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Five miles |  |  |  | near the end | right *property* | tree rules |

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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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