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title: hold up, how many brothers did little thumb have, like a whole crew? — Perrault's Tales, Little Thumb, part 1… · tree and pragmatics
description: hold up, how many brothers did little thumb have, like a whole crew? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 1088 «Perrault's Tales, Little Thumb, part 13: lost again, birds eat the bread, a storm in the night» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and o
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# Test 13 · ★ · Perrault's Tales, Little Thumb, part 13: lost again, birds…

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hold up, how many brothers did little thumb have, like a whole crew?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, many brothers, little thumb · **What happens:** hold up, do, have

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1088 «Perrault's Tales, Little Thumb, part 13: lost again, birds eat the bread, a storm in the night» 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/1088-pg29021-part13/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1088-pg29021-part13:t13:1
# text = hold up, how many brothers did little thumb have, like a whole crew?
1	hold	hold	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
8	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	thumb	thumb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	crew	crew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold up** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **do** | past | many brothers |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present | little thumb |  |  |  |  | like a whole crew | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
six older brothers and one little sister, eight children in total

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1088-pg29021-part13:t13:o1:1
# text = six older brothers and one little sister, eight children in total
1	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
3	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	total	total	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
six older brothers, seven boys total

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1088-pg29021-part13:t13:o2:1
# text = six older brothers, seven boys total
1	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
3	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	total	total	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
six older brothers who all worked in the forest with their father every day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1088-pg29021-part13:t13:o3:1
# text = six older brothers who all worked in the forest with their father every day
1	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
3	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	obl	_	_
5	all	all	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | past |  | six older brothers |  |  | day | with brothers's father; in the forest; all *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in forest=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
five older brothers, six boys total

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1088-pg29021-part13:t13:o4:1
# text = five older brothers, six boys total
1	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
3	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	total	total	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
```

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

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