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title: How many golden hens are maintained by the Sister of the Sun? — Fairy Book, The Golden Hen, part 37: a… · tree and pragmatics
description: How many golden hens are maintained by the Sister of the Sun? Exam question 3 of lesson 1236 «Fairy Book, The Golden Hen, part 37: a gardener's boy sets out to find a golden hen» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option;
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# Exam question 3 · Fairy Book, The Golden Hen, part 37: a gardener's boy sets…

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How many golden hens are maintained by the Sister of the Sun?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Sister · **What happens:** maintain · **To what, where:** many golden hens

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 1236 «Fairy Book, The Golden Hen, part 37: a gardener's boy sets out to find a golden hen» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/1236-pg3282-part37/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1236-pg3282-part37:e3:1
# text = How many golden hens are maintained by the Sister of the Sun?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	hens	hen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	maintained	maintain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **maintain** | present · passive | the Sister of the Sun | many golden hens |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |

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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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thirty-three

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1236-pg3282-part37:e3:o1:1
# text = thirty-three
1	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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three

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1236-pg3282-part37:e3:o2:1
# text = three
1	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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twelve

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1236-pg3282-part37:e3:o3:1
# text = twelve
1	twelve	twelve	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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fifteen in total

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1236-pg3282-part37:e3:o4:1
# text = fifteen in total
1	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	total	total	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	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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