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title: Bare hens in that castle, yeah? How many golden hens does she keep? — Fairy Book, The Golden Hen, part 37: a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bare hens in that castle, yeah? How many golden hens does she keep? Test 7 · ★ 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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# Test 7 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Golden Hen, part 37: a gardener's boy sets…

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Bare hens in that castle, yeah? How many golden hens does she keep?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** many golden hens · **What happens:** keep

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This is test 7 · ★ 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. 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Bare hens in that castle, yeah?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1236-pg3282-part37:t7:1
# text = Bare hens in that castle, yeah?
1	Bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	hens	hen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

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*Sentence 2:* How many golden hens does she keep?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1236-pg3282-part37:t7:2
# text = How many golden hens does she keep?
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	7	nsubj	_	_
5	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present · do-support | many golden hens |  |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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fifteen of them in total

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1236-pg3282-part37:t7:o1:1
# text = fifteen of them in total
1	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	total	total	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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twelve

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1236-pg3282-part37:t7:o2:1
# 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 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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three

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1236-pg3282-part37:t7:o3:1
# 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 4 {#o4}

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thirty-three

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1236-pg3282-part37:t7:o4:1
# 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.

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