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title: So how many bird shapes did he try in the race? — Myths and Legends of the Sioux, How Ba… · tree and pragmatics
description: So how many bird shapes did he try in the race? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1211 «Myths and Legends of the Sioux, How Ball-carrier Finished His Task, part 12: Lung-Woman is scalded and the Bad One drowns» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question
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# Test 11 · ★ · Myths and Legends of the Sioux, How Ball-carrier Finished…

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So how many bird shapes did he try in the race?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** many bird shapes · **What happens:** try · **To what, where:** race

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1211 «Myths and Legends of the Sioux, How Ball-carrier Finished His Task, part 12: Lung-Woman is scalded and the Bad One drowns» 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/1211-pg3282-part12/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1211-pg3282-part12:t11:1
# text = So how many bird shapes did he try in the race?
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
2	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
3	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	shapes	shape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
6	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | past · do-support | many bird shapes |  |  | the race |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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Around six different birds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1211-pg3282-part12:t11:o1:1
# text = Around six different birds
1	Around	around	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	birds	bird	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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Three, maybe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1211-pg3282-part12:t11:o2:1
# text = Three, maybe
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	maybe	maybe	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Maybe four or five kinds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1211-pg3282-part12:t11:o3:1
# text = Maybe four or five kinds
1	Maybe	maybe	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	_
5	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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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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Like four or five of them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1211-pg3282-part12:t11:o4:1
# text = Like four or five of them
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	_
```

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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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